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I'll say that "agreements" are unfair to all teams - including those that make them. They have no place in FIRST - the result of these agreements is a tainted product. After a morning of watching teams struggle to build and/or defend stacks of 3 or more then seeing two giant HP towers untouched - it just looked and felt wrong.
Members of more veteran teams (68, ...) were appalled by this. An AZ team next to us in the pits took a vote whether to withdraw from the competition. That team invested six hard weeks of robot building, plus fund raising and other personal sacrifices to get to Phoenix. I'd say considering withdrawing from the event in your own backyard is a very strong statement of the values that the teams in FIRST carry when it comes to ethics and credibility.
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2003 AZ: Semifinals, Motorola Quality; SoCal: Q-finals, Xerox Creativity; IRI: Q-finals
2004 AZ: Semifinals, GM Industrial Design; SoCal: Winners, Leadership in Controls; Championship: Galileo #2 seed, Q-finals; IRI: Champions
2005 AZ: #1 Seed, Xerox Creativity; SoCal: Finalist, RadioShack Controls; SVR: Winners, Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technologies"; Championship: Archimedes Semifinals; IRI: Finalist
2007 LA: Finalist; San Diego: Q-finals; CalGames: Finalist || 2008 San Diego: Q-finals; LA: Winners; CalGames: Finalist || 2009 LA: Semifinals; Las Vegas: Q-finals; IRI: #1 Seed, Finalist
2010 AZ: Motorola Quality; LA: Finalist || 2011 SD: Q-finals; LA: Q-finals || 2013 LA: Xerox Creativity, WFFA, Dean's List Finalist || 2014 IE: Q-finals, LA: Finalist, Dean's List Finalist
2016 Ventura: Q-finals, WFFA, Engineering Inspiration
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