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Originally Posted by Martian86
1. In general, our mentors take it as a personal offense if we do not use their designs, and they push for their own designs on the robot even after we've proven that they either don't work at all or don't work as well as another design.
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This is ego vs. engineering. I've seen it often, both within FRC and in the "real" world and have been guilty of it myself. I don't know of an easy solution. Some people will need to see a design fail miserably before considering an alternative. Occasionally, even that is not enough.
I can tell you for certain that this phenomenon is not limited to team 1159.