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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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This is perhaps partly true, but I think the overall effect is to give teams a new choice. If you want to wait until you know more to be sure you can use the stuff you choose, you can wait until the game is released. If you want to stock up to save a bit of time during the season, you can select generally useful stuff before the season.
For our part, I think we'll take advantage of the early $450 AndyMark voucher to buy some drive parts to have ready on day 1. Then if the game dictates a completely different drive than the one we gambled on, we'll either a) make it work anyway or b) eat the extra cost to build a different drive.
Overall I like the ability to pre-buy to reduce our exposure to a potential early supply crunch / backorder delay at AndyMark on certain parts.