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Originally Posted by MrForbes
I thought that saying applies more to heads up drag racing...????
Run what ya brung, and hope you brung enough
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Only used the analogy in response on how to strictly enforce a stop build day. It is obviously impractical for a mired of reasons.
And before I get taken too far out of context on my original post, my comments are from a 2nd year team/mentor that had challenges beyond just being a 2nd year team. We lost a week and half in terms of build days due to weather and school cancellations. We still managed to get a robot that can pick up a ball, pass a ball and shoot it into the goal or over the truss on limited resources. I am not saying it can't be done.
I also know in reality and in our area we will be challenged to have the fund raising opportunity and the ability to build two robots every year.
I by no means meant to offend veteran teams or any other team. I am concerned for teams in our situation that if FIRST raises entry fees, or budget for robots where will it leave many teams and how competitive can we be. I would hope FIRST would not make it cost prohibitive that teams would have to drop to lower costing organizations. There is a lot of good things going on here and we want to be a part of it for the long haul.
In the meantime we will work to be as competitive as we can with the resources at hand and like many teams will get better towards that goal each year.