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Originally Posted by MrForbes
If you get it way wrong the first time, you pretty much have to start over. Since I am not convinced that having every team build a top notch robot is the point of FRC, the existing rules make sense to me.
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It's not about every team building a top notch robot, I don't care if you're 254 or 5xxx. Building a robot blindly is only
half of the engineering process. The other half is testing your original design, learning why it isn't perfect, and re-engineering/redesigning/rebuilding it to make a closer approximation to the perfect solution. Sure, you can do a lot of this in your shop
if you have the resources at home, but never as well on a real field with 5 other robots.
By having more access to your robot between your first and second competition (I realize not every team competes twice), your students can learn how to solve problems much better than building a robot blindly and never improving it. The end result is not only better robots, but most importantly, better students.
I think we're getting caught up in the "let's make all teams more competitive" argument and missing the "let's make all teams more inspiring" argument.