[Timz3082]

Last year, many teams ran into issues obtaining gearboxes and motors for their designs due to the great amount of teams purchasing said motors from companies, most notably Banebots.

We received our gearboxes and motors the day after ship, which caused us to have to make a switch between two qualification rounds.

This should not have to happen how it unfolded, and there are ways FIRST could have easily made it more possible to have these gearboxes to work with.

First of all, they could have given Banebots more forewarning of the amount of teams that will be purchasing the gearboxes, and made them more prepared to handle the extra load.

They most of all should have forewarned teams which motors they can use on the robot this season and what quantity months in advance. This would allow experience teams to "stock up", and rookie teams to receive their orders quickly during the season. I just don't want to have another year where an issue like this caused a loss in testing time, preventing us from really getting much practice and tuning in.

These are just my thoughts, feel free to comment, and suggest a course of action. I believe we need to truly notify first of what happened here and that it needs to be fixed.