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Re: 2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative
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Originally Posted by tgraham_533
As a mentor for 15 years, I have noticed that the field is becoming more and more complicated and more and more important to testing. This year's pyramid was expensive and required alot of space. Our team is limited to an active shop classroom to design, build and test the robot. We could not build the pyramid due to space. In addition, the low cost field was not truly representative of the actual field. The small portion of the pyramid we did build drove us to make certain design decisions that were not appropriate once we saw the actual field.
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This really needs to be repeated until FIRST acknowledges it - the pyramid was a prohibitively difficult field piece to simulate accurately, and it added another hurdle for teams of limited means. Every field piece should be easy to simulate accurately for testing purposes.
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