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Originally Posted by Patrick Chiang
Not quite sure what you mean both methods are effective?
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The point of FIRST is to inspire. You can inspire with a small budget or a large. You can inspire with a mentor build machine or a student built one.
That is why the founders of FIRST have repeatedly explained that FIRST is not about student built robots and student run teams. I'm not sure why people can't seem to get it over that fact, but there it is.
Teams can 'legitimately' get to the top any way they want, be it big budget, student led or mentor led.
If they lose, they simply know that they didn't build a good enough robot or happened to get unlucky.
Perhaps next time a team gets accused of being mentor led or having a mentor built robot their response should be "Yes we are, and we're proud of it." I wonder if that would get the message across to some of the haters.