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Originally Posted by Foster
Oh Sanddrag, a VEX slap? Are you unhappy that VEX sends out those really cool number plates?
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Quite on the contrary, and the VEX numbers are irrelevant to my point. What I was trying to say is that FRC is the big leagues, and not everyone is ready for it. With a rookie dropout rate in FRC of nearly 50%, many schools would be better suited to participating in the VEX, or perhaps FTC programs.
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Originally Posted by Sperkowsky
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.
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I did precede my comment with a disclaimer that I was uncertain how to present my point in a nice way, but I feel it's a point that needed to be presented. Perhaps a robot having poor numbers is indeed
not an indicator of a team's overall abilities or efforts. Who am I to say what a different team's limitations and circumstances are. However, I worry about the long term success and sustainability of a team (any team, not specifically yours) that is unable to complete one of the simplest and most straightforward tasks required in the whole scope of this program.
I used to think that a certain team's viewpoint of "if there's things that your team is not good at, and others are, you need to work harder" was kind of rude and arrogant, because it makes the presumption that some teams don't work hard, but then I discovered that the statement is very applicable to reality, and life in general, and I'm beginning to see its value. Success comes from hard work, in every detail of everything you do. That's the bottom line.
Samuel, if your team anticipates having another struggle with creating numbers, I would like to personally extend an offer to vinyl cut team 2869's numbers, free of charge, and I'll mail them to you on my dime. I'll do whatever font and size you want, and even a custom logo graphic of the number if it's a modified font artwork.
And to steer this thread back on track with the original discussion of solutions, vinyl cutting is indeed one nice way to do it with a professional outcome. Laser cutting of plastic may also be an option, as may be CNC router cutting.
(sorry for the derailment OP)