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Originally Posted by EricH
I would find it EXTREMELY out of FIRST's character for robots of Dozer's class to have no role at all.
Dozer is generally regarded as the BLT/BoxBot class of robots. These are your very low-resource* teams who have a tough time building a basic robot--FIRST always attempts to have something that they can do to be a positive contribution to an alliance. Always.
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I think that my earlier text is causing confusion in what I meant in my last post. I don't mean by any means that FIRST might be getting rid of low-resource bots that rookie teams can easily manage. I mean that maybe the game is leaving the ground level. For example (not an actual assumption of what the game might be but it would be something different) if the game was played with game pieces that were suspended above the field on strings. A rookie team could jut as easily build a chassis and simply put long poles on top to push around the pieces.
I agree that an elimination of these kit bots plus one or two parts would severely cut the number of new teams for FIRST and hope that this clears up my earlier statement.