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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
Oh but then it wouldn't be fair in some other contrived way. This isn't an issue of fair any more than the mentor/student debates or the multiple competition debates are. It is all about teams seeing what other teams have and wanting it but not having to work.
Teams need to stop hiding behind fair and GP and start realizing that if they want something they need to work for it because no one is going to HAND them anything.
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Quoting the harsh truth for truth.
People who are sitting around complaining and whining are the same people who aren't doing anything. Part of the challenge of FIRST (i.e. not just FRC) is to not only play each year's competition well, but to play every year's competition well, and become a "powerhouse" team. That involves getting devoted mentors, training students each year, fundraising enough for sustainability and yes, sometimes building a practice bot. If you think that teams doing these things well are at an advantage, it's because they are. And they EARNED it. Even mentorbot teams have to deserve those mentors; I'm sure that if the students didn't work hard at all, the mentors would get frustrated enough to walk away (and if they didn't, you'd really have to respect the patience of those mentors).
Don't be an Occupy FRC team. Actually do something instead of camping in public forums with picket signs.