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Originally Posted by Sunshine
Make it easier? Heck, I bet there are others like me who would like it a little harder. I'm tired of living in a PC society where we dumb down things for little Johnnie so he can feel good about himself. Here's a little surprise. Little Johnnie is smarter than you think and eventually figures out that you lowered the bar on his behalf. It doesn't make him feel better about himself.
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Just a thought. I bet the bottom 15% at competitions are the same 15% voting for the purchase of complete robots on the poll. Not sure how to interpret that. Want a quick and easy fix to a complex problem?
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FIRST can lower the barrier to entry while still maintaining "The hardest fun you'll ever have". Nobody is saying you prevent teams from doing the hard stuff.
I would vehemently argue that my team isn't in the bottom 15% (we won a regional and the MN State Championship in 2013 and were 2nd in state as alliance captains in 2014), and I voted to allow the purchasing of complete robots.
I'm 100% sure my team would be too prideful to buy the complete robot, but they sure as heck would learn from it.