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Teams with "proffessional looking" robots are also sometimes merely teams who have great sponsors who are willing to lasercut or CNC Bend parts at little to no charge. Teams (like mine) work for these sponsorships. Our Captain called every fabrication company in the southeast (literally) in order to find a sponsor. Also this is the first year we have even tried to find one of these amazing sponsors and our robot this year is the best one we've ever had.

Also our robot is student designed and student built with our college age mentors merely checking the CAD drawings and refining them. I by no means put us up there with the quality of teams like 1114 or 148, but we have a highly competitive robot this year which was designed by us that led us to two regional wins.

If teams work to get the resources to make their robot more competitive then why take away from them?