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Originally Posted by pwnageNick
I would say this is at the very high end of a VEX team budget, at least for a single team (single robot).
Even as a member of a VEXU team I couldn't imagine spending this much money on one robot.
-Nick
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It adds up quick especially for your first year 4 standoffs are $20 i used like 40 on my best bot.
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Originally Posted by Joe G.
Paul's old VEX team operates in a very high-end way  . Some of us on other teams bent our axles from heavy robots when we couldn't afford aluminum, not from dropping it!  |
thanks, i think haha.
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Originally Posted by Joe G.
5k in parts, plus 2k for new designs may be quite a bit much if you're just starting out with one team, but there are also far too many people who will tell you "VEX is super cheap, just register, buy a $500 Dual Control starter kit, and you're good to go!". You simply won't be able to compete on any meaningful level without investing quite a bit more into parts. A practice field makes a world of difference as well.
This goes for any robotics competition based around a kit and a limited subset of parts. Plenty of FLL and FTC teams exist that just work off a barebones kit, but the teams that strive to be the most competitive, and in my opinion, the teams that open their students up to the greatest opportunities, strive to go well beyond this and push the limitations on parts to their limits.
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Its true you could get a protobot to do the challenge every year with little modification but to truly get the most out of it you have to aim not to only be competitive but to strive for greatness. if its worth doing its worth giving 100%. My team was a bit extreme we put 20+ hours in a week had weekly rebuilds of major subsystems and two weeks before any competition the robot had to be 100% done, tested and the auto working or we would be forced to cancel (unless it was our home competition) most times we had a second robot built just to play around with different concepts. once we even divided up the team and fielded both for fun. the crazy part was there was only three of us.
We didn't have first at my school (we did the year before i was a freshmen) so we ran a vex team like a first team and did things a bit differently than most.