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Re: 2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Siri View Post
What I dislike is that it moves the objective out of many creative and passionate teams' reach. Many such teams made the entirely correct Karthik-esque call: drop it and do what you can do well (that whole 10 units of robot awesomeness thing). Good on them, bad on FIRST for setting up a game that makes a potentially inspiring challenge so strategically unappealing to so many teams.

FIRST, please don't do that again.
This. So much this. You said it better than I ever could have.
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