[jman4747]

Originally Posted by magnets

It's your responsibility that your entry to the FIRST Robotics Competition be your team's best competitive entry. If you decide that swerve is the best thing for your team, and it turns out to be unreliable, I might think you made a silly, but understandable, mistake. If you realize that swerve will lower both your rankings, and the rankings of those who must play with you, and you still decide to build it, it reflects poorly on your team.

I think I have a responsibility to be the best I can and for this team to be the best it can this year and next. To me that means that I should try to push the limits of my current abilities. I realize I sound too condicending towards teams who did make it to and win Einstein, however winning is not the primary perpose of building a great machine, building a great machine is. There is a difference between doing your best in rankings/placement than doing your best as an engineer and student. Our "best" issn't what gives us the best chance of winning it's what was hardest for us regardless of necessity.

Also "same old robot as 2k other teams" is unfair, I'm sorry. But if I can help it I won't try to have my systems fundamentally similar to most teams because that's the easiest rout. I'll make it because it's the best I can do with what I have.