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Originally Posted by Retired Starman
For a team that's really organized, does good, honest design before starting construction, and can stick with the construction schedule, finishing metal is just another step in the process. It lets the judges know you are on top of things.
Either that or. . . Your robot looks like it was built by adults off in a shop somewhere else and wasn't really "kid-built". I saw one robot this year which was done by a veteran team. It had a beautiful anodized finish on parts that had been CNC fabricated. The robot looked great, until you saw the piece of unfinished 1 by 8 wood, held on with some rather ugly right-angle brackets, that was being used as the minibot deployment unit. It was painfully obvious which parts of the robot the kids had built and which had been done by mentors/sponsors.
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...Or it just made it easy to tell which parts were planned in advance compared to which parts were done later in the process. But of course if you want to keep making assumptions about teams and taking pot shots, you could do that too. I saw some minibot deployments which were made out of wood and ugly brackets that got minibots up the pole kind of fast...