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Originally Posted by nuggetsyl
Who here wants to lay out a million dollars on tires people may or may not want to buy? You can't blame AndyMark or Vex Pro for limited supply. Forecasting is extremely hard. Ordering too much can cost you dearly.
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FIRST is dumping everybody's time and money in the garbage by not telling suppliers that they're going to need certains parts. I understand that it "adds to the real world engineering challenge", but if our goal is "to make FIRST available to every high school student", shouldn't we try to help the suppliers that make this program possible not waste money?
I've heard people say that no suppliers are given advanced information about the game, but is this still totally true? I know AndyMark knows what the game piece is ahead of time, but I'm guessing they had no idea that the game would favor pneumatic wheels, otherwise they would have came up with the kitbot upgrade kit earlier, and would have made more wheels/Rhino tread parts.