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Originally Posted by Bongle
So therefore, how could we reduce the snyde comments?
Idea 1: An education campaign, pointing out perennially high-performing teams that do so without any in-built advantages like a single massive sponsor to let teams with less support know that they can do it two
Idea 2: An official "most from the least" award, given to highlight teams that persevere through money/mentor/support shortages and still create excellent robots. Given many of the "we're low budget and we're good" comments in this thread, this award may end up going to regional winners or top seeds, and might make people realize that the "sponsor-built" robot they had been demeaning was actually built by people very much like them using resources not much beyond their own.
Idea 3: Publicize team budgets. This would have a good and a bad effect: since there are high-performing teams with enormous budgets, they'd get put in the spotlight. But since there are also high-performance teams without enormous budgets, it'd give the other low-budget teams hope that they could do the same.
Idea 4: Maybe you could publicize a team's minimum budget in the last 5 years. Since many teams will have dry years, this would allow everyone to say "oh hey, they had a dry year like ours, and they still became very strong later"
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Great ideas. I like 2~4. Re-education against human nature is ineffective. On the other hand, cold hard facts are certainly welcome in a pool of irrationality.
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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56
Patrick,
We're not limited by resources, machining or money, and we have never considered mechanum in the first place. This year particularly would be perfect to run a wide oriented 4wd or a 6wd with a single speed transmission. Sounds like you guys would benefit from following this suggestion.
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We went with tracks this year. Our students literally machined tracks out of scrap from last year. When I said mecannum, I thought I made it clear we machined those 2 years ago, for the soccer + rail hanging game.