[ksafin]

To add on to the post I just made..

As I said, we'd have the test chassis that'd be ready to go on the competition field and work with our manipulator, collector, etc. It's there. It'll work. It'll be there if the custom chassis fails.

At the same time, I much rather have some students working on a custom chassis, getting that CAD experience, learning more about sheet metal fabrication, learning to do stress tests, and have our team start to delve into that kind of design rather than stick to the same old thing because it works.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should not use the KBoS because it's "used by everyone" or "boring"; I'm merely saying that I think it's beneficial to students, and really, in the vision of FIRST to have students learn more about other chassis designs, drive systems, etc, especially if it doesn't hurt our teams standing (considering we have our backup extrusion chassis)