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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Don't get me started on how your team is "incapable" of building a practice robot, and thus you have to stifle anyone who worked their butts off to make one. First of all, you could always build two less capable, simpler robots. You would have a more competitive season than the single "do everything" doohickey you likely have now. Second, what's less inspiring then telling a team of kids "yeah, I know you want to work extra hard to achieve excellence, but we have to hold ourselves back to match other teams effort"?
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I'm sorry to "get you started" but many teams literally do not have the resources/money. It isn't always a matter of just putting in more hard work. And that last bit there is really making a lot of assumptions that are only going to apply to some teams. Working extra hard to achieve excellence has NOTHING to do with building multiple robots; you can put that energy into more prototypes, a more modular design, higher goals, etc. And the fact that you would be limited to off-bot work after Stop Build day engenders more creativity in the way you do that work.
I'm not saying that disallowing proxy bots is the objective better way in all situations to inspire students, I'm just saying that is has some really great merits and seems much more true to the spirit of FIRST. I think it would make the competition more of a factor of how well and how efficiently you can work in 6 weeks.