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Originally Posted by bEdhEd
I'd have to agree, unless the funding for trophies per event was done independent of FIRST, as I stated with the possibility of having teams volunteer their time/donate materials for a single design for their local event.
But yes, a universal mass produced design for all of FRC is more economic, and isn't efficiency a big part of engineering?
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The original proposal had the benefit that FIRST didn't pay for the trophies (willing teams build them) and neither FIRST nor event planners had to do very much, other collect the trophies, get a group of willing team reps together to pick which ones to use, and get the unused ones back to the teams. Event staff would also have to affix FIRST provided brass plates to the chosen trophies.
Costs and manufacturing were 'crowd sourced' out to the teams so no one organization has to deal with anything substantial in volume. Anything that leads to a custom design to be mass produced will be worse than the status quo in terms of costs/logistics.
I would clarify the proposal so that district championships and CMP(s) would still have traditional FIRST provided awards. Or maybe this proposal would make sense only at district events and not regionals. Maybe a handful of district events or an entire single district would be a good place to 'pilot' something like this.