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Re: What can FIRST do to increase FRC team sustainability?
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Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux
You'd still have a hard deadline - your first regional event. Many teams don't have a functioning robot by that truly important deadline.
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Originally Posted by gblake
Those teams had plenty of calendar time to create a functioning robot.
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After seeing the game played, it is easy to know how your team shoulda built their robot. It is much harder to figure that out beforehand. Many teams put insufficient time and thought into deciding what robot to build. This is not laziness -- it is failure to recognize soon enough that thinking is the hard part.
Jared said it well earlier in this thread:
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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
Many/most teams need the handicap of being able to change their robot after experiencing the game for the first time in order to have a rewarding season on the field.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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