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Originally Posted by Robot Sans
I don't think so. Robot parts are getting cheaper day by day. The quality of robots has visibly improved over the years...look at 2003 and now. This change is attributed to higher level resources being made more readily available. I'm sure there are companies if presented with Ariel Assist 10 years ago they could have made something to a similar quality of 254's barrage. Each year the bar is raised in general and one day it will be cheap/easy enough that every one can make a practice robot.
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There are teams out there that barely have enough funding to build a single robot out of plywood. The entry fee for a regional is $5000. Some teams will just never have the funding to build 2 robots.