Thread: Robot Numbering, Attractive Solutions?
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Unread 06-02-2015, 11:01
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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
Well said. I agree entirely. At least they didn't mandate the font.

The numbering rules of years past really were more than sufficient and did not need change. I don't know how to say this in a graciously professional way, but I blame the teams who always somehow managed to make crappy numbers that you couldn't read as a reason for the new change. These teams who cannot figure out how to display their own number properly are teams that really ought to be participating in VEX instead. You know who they are. There's a handful at every event.

Let this be a lesson to all of us: If you allow your fellow competitors to get away with poor quality work, and we'll all be mandated to implement "solutions" that are better than these teams' poor quality work, but worse than the top teams' high-quality work. It really reflects poorly on the teams that have been doing it a while that we have newer teams that struggle with these rather mundane tasks. It says that we don't do enough as mentors, which I'll admit, we don't.

If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm not a fan of the black on white color scheme. I prefer quite the opposite, and have never had any trouble seeing it, from over 100 feet away.

But, I'll get over the numbers eventually, and I'm thankful bumpers are gone.
Your comment is actually pretty offensive. I am a member of "one of those teams" from last year we had a barely built bot and didn't have time to take an hour to paint on numbers so we did it in 10 seconds and it looked like crap. This year we are getting to the end with a working bot so we will have time to make our number look nice. Some newer teams like us have money, mentor, space and time issues. We wanted to do frc so we did and we have been doing it. Just because a team did bad one year doesn't mean they are not good enough. Please save your rude and abnoxious comments for when your on a team who has 1 full time mentor, a tiny room, and such a tiny budget that you can't afford anything but bar stock and l bracket.