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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I'm a little confused as to how FIRST expects teams to be ready to order parts before knowing what their robot is going to even roughly look like. Won't this just encourage people to start "pre-building"?
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I agree that it'll be hard to order before the game is released, but some things never change. You would always need batteries, for example.
Also, you can deduce some properties of the game by FIRST Choice's part list, though ordering these parts in advanced might be a dangerous strategy. The chassis lifters in the list this year were a sign of a passable buffer of some sort.
Finally, you may have to re-stock, if you lost some important parts during the offseason (or the season itself even).
About "pre-building", I don't think we'll see teams pre-ordering to get an early lead. Most teams will understand the high risks in pre-building, I believe. Also, this being not very GP (in mi mind for the very least) might deter some of the teams who won't.