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Originally Posted by bbradf44
"FTC is the single best thing our students can do to prepare for the FRC season"
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Strongly disagree. First off, there is no single best thing you can do to prepare for build season. The level of intensity, the amount of strategic analysis, and the scale of the robots designed is only comparable to a FRC build season itself. Second, the robots are very different. They use completely different control systems and are a whole lot smaller.
My team competes in a vex competition (not official vex competition, we use the signal splitters and banebots) that helps get new members acclimated with the strategy meetings and some basic building and wiring. We also are planning on building/wiring a kitbot, rewiring our 2013 practice bot, and simulating a strategy meeting; all an effort to prepare members for FRC season. The intensity still blows away new students, and is pretty impressive to veteran members.