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Originally Posted by The other Gabe
Part of FRC is to introduce you to how engineering is in real life: you can't use a redo card if you're landing something on the moon.
this is also unfair to the other teams, who successfully beat you, in part because they remembered to tighten every screw, plug in all the batteries, make sure their pneumatics were well built (cough cough my team in 2012 cough cough).
FRC, especially recycle rush, is about having the robot best made for the challenge win, and that includes durability (in my opinion anyways)
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I agree with this. When the Mars Climate Orbiter failed do to a simple mistake, NASA didn't get a "redo". In real life, once a mistake is made, it is usually final. Learn from failures made in FRC and apply the knowledge learned in real world applications.