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Originally Posted by jman4747

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.

Some people here would disagree with this premise. For me at least, when I think of FRC I think of a competition. And quite frankly, "Winning is inspirational." I do genuinely care about building a robot that I can be proud of, and this year despite us being rookies, my team did very well with a robot that was not exceedingly complex. When I look at swerve drives, I am impressed by engineering complexity, but I will never put challenge above performance. The swerve drives I have been most impressed by are the ones that are the lightest, the most powerful, or the least resource intensive.