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Re: Role of Sponsors at Competition

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi View Post
In my opinion, not a huge deal. If it was someone on my alliance, I would understand their rationale for wanting to try out auton in front of a sponsor.
Wouldn't winning a match and ranking higher be more of a positive outcome at the end of the event then demonstrating that an autonomous mode functions?

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Originally Posted by DavisC View Post
The ball of course missed and we loss the match by only a few points...
From my experiences, sponsors love to be able to make the claim of "the robot we sponsored ranked 15'th out of 40" and not "the robot we sponsored has a autonomous that shot the ball; but because it wasn't accurate, the robot ranked near the bottom"

Just my $0.02
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