[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

But that's what FIRST wants, remember? They made the minibot race dramatically huge so that we'd invest in the FTC kit, hopefully competing in the 2011-2012 FTC game.

It's too bad the most competitive minibots involve modifying Tetrix components to the point of uselessness in FTC, and that it effectively turns Logomotion into a coin flip (if heads, your team's minibot doesn't combust halfway up the pole and cost you the event!)

The funny thing is that all of the "super fast" minibots that I've seen use 4 tetrix parts at most - Motors, batteries, and the on/off switch.

I understand that devaluing the minibot would hurt some teams that focused on that, but what about the teams that focused on putting up tubes? You're telling me that all of the work that my team has done to score 5 game pieces should be erased by one robot that didn't score any tubes and put up a minibot? Something's not right there.