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Originally Posted by bduddy
I wonder if FIRST is trying to gently(?) nudge the "powerhouse" teams towards improving the general level of play, which really is shockingly low at a lot of regionals. 254 got the Gracious Professionalism award at SVR largely for, according to the speech, spending a great deal of time in the pits helping other teams. While I'm not questioning their motives, this probably helped them as well, given that they had a very good robot and could then expect better partners in their matches. Obviously improving the overall level of FRC by a significant amount takes a lot longer than a weekend, but....
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I posted earlier on this thread that I thought this was the intent of FIRST, but that they could have implemented it more smoothly so as not to catch the more experienced teams off guard. With a little forethought, the play level could have been lifted prior to the build season, instead of trying to catch up after the first Saturday in January.