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Originally Posted by DampRobot
Thank you. This is such an awesome resource. That arm probably made team 67's robot my favorite in all of FRC.
How were teams picked? Was there a nomination process? Or was it more based on who had already released build season documentation?
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We originally contacted the top 25 teams from the FRC top 25 website. Unfortunately, many had to drop out of the process for multiple reasons over the last several months.
67 was the only team who had previously put out an informational document - that's why we started with theirs, because it was primarily a matter of reformatting it into the BTD format that the books used in the past. We tried to stay true to those books. I always thought they were a wonderful resource and artfully done, but then I'm an engineer so what do I know
It was a bigger job that we originally thought. Writing, formatting and proof reading (mostly formatting) each submission takes anywhere from 8-20 hours. That doesn't include getting back to teams for additional content and photographs. So in a way, we're lucky we didn't get a ton of submissions.
Next year, I hope to start earlier, and we're going to work with FIRST and potentially ask for submissions from any team who has won a robot award so we end up with more teams. That's quite a ways off, and I"ll have to get buy-in from our new students before we even decide to repeat this next year.
I'll leave the business awards to some other busybody!