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Originally Posted by Oblarg
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was in response to people complaining about COTS parts trivializing the design challenges of FIRST ("buying a robot," etc), not in response to people (correctly) saying that COTS parts are a very good thing and have greatly improved FIRST.
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If the statement was about the bottom 10%-20% of teams I have a really unpopular response for them: Maybe FRC isn't for you. There might be benefit in going to a different program with lower costs (FTC,VEX) while you build up the resources needed to compete in FRC. This includes mentorship, community, machining, and monetary resources.