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Re: FRC Blogged - KOP Evolution

First I know it is no one's responsibility to give away spare parts. However it is an extremely common thing to do. One of the useful advantages of the kit bot chassis for young teams and teams with fewer resources is that they can almost always find spare parts at competitions from veteran teams that didn't use their kit bot drive train. I know we gave away half of our kit wheels this year to rookies that broke theirs. There will be far fewer spares at competitions in the coming years.

I for one am leaning to getting the kit bot chassis because I find it a very valuable tool to teach new students and it also gives the team experience using the parts that the rookie teams use. That way we can help rookie teams at rookie builds and at the regionals. If we didn't have our own kit bot it would be much harder to get our team up to speed on how to help others.
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