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Re: Announcing the 2013 December Design Competition

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Originally Posted by ehfeinberg View Post
A design is only as good as the strategy it executes.

And I would go even farther to say that all designs (for the same strategy) are equal in FRC. The only difference is how well a team executes a design. A team who does a simple task very well will do much better than a team who does a complicated task not too well.

So I would say that aimlessly designing robots is a useless task if you do not account for how your design accomplishes your strategy.
I'm not saying that strategy isn't an important role, because I know for a fact it is. All I'm saying is that it doesn't matter if one side is biased or not. If this was actual FRC game is would be a huge issue, but since we're CADing robot and not actually competing with them, it doesn't matter how biased the field is towards certain alliances. You could design a 29" high robot that scores in the 2 pt goals, and state in your strategy brief that it goes the fastest way possible depending on which alliance your on.
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