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Originally Posted by TEAM1100soft506
I just want to say, as a member of a team who has been around for over 10 years now, the concept of a hall of fame is just plane rediculous. We are here to work and play and spread the message of FIRST. To me, the hall of fame recignizes the teams who have the most money and are able to do great extravagent things with it. Dont get me wrong, they worked hard to earn it, and I am most definitely not knocking philanthropy or the value of becoming a chairmans winning team, but the hall of fame shouldnt exist. It is not fair to have a team like mine who can barely keep afloat, is using old equipment for design, programming, and building our robot, to have to compete against a team like Ms. Daisy (no offence) who has multiple heavy hitter sponsors, is able to travel internationally to show off their robot in the United Kingdom, as well as other wonderfull things like that. I believe that yes these teams types of teams should be an example to others, But I do not believe that other teams should get less of a chance to compete due to financial reasons.
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This is completely wrong. I took time to visit each and every one of the Hall of Fame teams and each of them have their own problems. Some even struggle to come to the championship each year. For example, the team that won in 2009 (I forget who they are) had an awesome robot with a 30 pt climber this year, but they worked in a small portable classroom where the ceiling was too low to set up a full sized tower. So, the team build a shorter version of a corner and were able to be successful without building a full tower at all. While it is true that many of the teams are well funded and have good resources, not all of the teams there are rich.