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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I do think there is a difference between a generic-use COTS robot part (a gearbox) and a game-specific COTS robot part (an intake). That may be the distinction that upsets some people.
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Agreed. COTS parts level the playing field by providing lower-resource teams with affordable, premade options that will fit their needs well enough. However, a team who relies solely on COTS systems will find that their performance is much the same- off-the-shelf, just like everyone else. Although COTS assemblies raise the baseline for competitive robots, they don't hurt teams who put time and effort into mechanisms of their own design.