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Originally Posted by MrForbes
Interesting...we don't spend money on this stuff. And we're one of the bigger fish in our small pond.
I guess you can find fault with the game, or you can find fault with how you play the game?
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In fairness there's a lot of reasons why you need more than the spend of money alone and the need for fast shipping to determine if there's a fault in a team rather the competition.
Hence the need to ask questions about making a practice robot in my other topic.
For example:
1. Is your team really 2 teams in the same school who share spaces and some basic parts?
2. Do you run FLL, FTC and FRC competitions from your school?
3. Is each of your teams larger than 75 people?
4. Is your team student led?
5. Does your team compete in MAR (we can see you are in AZ)?
6. What technologies has your team decided to use (do you CNC, powder coat, CAD/CAM)?
Not that our teams should not seek out every opportunity to succeed but pretty clearly concerns exist beyond our teams and we are not new to this. Between FRC11 and FRC193 we tend to have very different build styles. The FRC11 team is the older students in their last 2 years and they tend to use the CNC and mass manufacturing skills more. The FRC193 team are in their 1st 2 years of high school and tends towards classic build where hand tools are often adequate. There are upsides and downs to these approaches and also how optimized your team is with either.