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Originally Posted by mrnoble
Awesome that we get to discuss this again.
The unintended consequences will be rampant, but in the end, there will still be three basic categories of FRC teams at competition: - top level teams, who work year round and take advantage of every opportunity and loophole available to win more;
- low resource, low knowledge teams, who will come to competition with poor quality robots, and
- teams who are willing to work ridiculously hard, but cant yet be called "elite" (if they ever get that far)
In other words, the rich would stay rich, the poor would stay poor, and a bunch of us would just keep chuggin'. So we might as well keep it the way it is.
My opinion. |
I agree with this alot.
I like the stop build day. If we were to get rid of it, I feel like it would create an even bigger disparity between the elite and rookies. The elite would have several robots by the end of the season, and there would be a lot of cloning... Also think of all the fun times that we would miss. 1114's harpoons would not be such a cool big deal! They would be pre-build to a specific robot that would play like junk in quals so they would be picked. Part of what i think makes FRC so great is the pressure. The pressure to get your design. It simulates a real world job where you must finish a project by a certain time. Getting rid of stop build day would I believe lower the fun and lower the number of unique designs, and working with what you have.