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Originally Posted by Foster
I'm one of the few people that voted for everything. Bring it on. Lets see an entire field of robot kits playing. Woody said "It's not about the robot.", so why are there 300 posts about it being all about the robot?
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I did as well for the same reasoning. To paraphrase a person that I respect very much: "If FIRST is going to keep growing, it needs to be sustainable, and not too difficult."
I'd love to be able to watch FRC on ESPN. The only way that's going to happen is if we raise the floor to an exciting level. That happens when there are easy solutions to the problem.
The MCC robot from WCP and the Ri3D robots help with this. I do agree that a line should be drawn when a rookie team can show up to a regional with a store bought robot and beat a bunch of mid-level teams. However, I sincerely doubt that even if there was a store bought solution, that teams would buy it and be satisfied. I've worked with 7 different teams for at least a short period of time. I'm positive that every single one of them would look to improve upon the store bought option.