[Jon Stratis]

I highly doubt there were many, if any, teams who looked at this as a chance to make a profit through resale or a chance to hoard pieces they had no intention of using.

That said, I would completely understand a team looking at the items available and saying "We know we'll have a 4-motor drive train this year, lets pick up 4 Talons for it", or "Our programming team really needs 2 new laptops for use at competition, lets pick up two classmates". This way, they're looking at what they'll need, as well as the value proposition for their team. If you know you need to get something anyways, you're going to go after the highest cost items on FIRST Choice you know you need, and simply buy the lower cost items later.

The problem is, if there are only 1000 Talons, and you have 250 teams that log in and purchase 4 each for their drive train, then you have another 2250+ teams who can't get any.

You end up with the same results we have today, without any of the intentional malice or profit-making attempts.