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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday
I think a major factor of this change is Robot in 3 Days. It showed teams who might have made mediocre robots an easy way to make a simple and good robot. We can discuss if this is a good change (competition up, innovation down) but I think it was a major factor. It certainly made the events more fun to watch.
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Yeah, Ri3D was what gave us our shooter. They helped us, 4228, a lot since our budget does not allow for much prototyping. Our shooter was one of the more successful ones through the first two days of competition racking up a lot of points for us...it is a shame that one of the tires popped without us noticing until it was too late on day 3 -.- (Too late meaning after we lost our Qual match by 9 pts and our shooter had only about 30% accuracy that match)
Overall, I think Ri3D had a positive impact on a lot of teams in FIRST, innovation did not go down because of it, most teams that I saw used an aspect from Ri3D and put it on their robot...but not all of it.