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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Easy everyone, there's no way this storyline is based in reality, those polo's aren't even blue!

Good point. It's probably not supposed to be that realistic, and it has to fit with the rest of the show. After all, this is not a show about FIRST; it's a show about other things that happened to feature FIRST.

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Seems pretty real to me. When was the last time you were at an event and did not seen a team do exactly what they did.

I am just laughing at the irony of them talking about Gracious Professionalism and then judging a team for having an engineer mentor.

QFT!

The reason they put the mentor-built debate in was because they attended a regional and possibly read CD. And what did they hear/read? Student-built vs. mentor-built robot controversy. And they thought, "That could be entertaining on a TV show!" The reason it's on the show is because it happens in FIRST in real life. Though I won't judge too much until I see the whole thing.

Originally Posted by seg9585

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I was a bit more frustrated at the earlier episodes in which the students and teacher threw around the terms "Omni Wheels" and "Swerve Drive" when clearly referring to and demonstrating Mecanum Drive. Yes, I know the general public won't know the difference but there's an attention to detail in scriptwriting that's obviously missing here. If you're going to technobabble, at least be somewhat accurate!

They did WHAT? Come on, people, do your homework! Is it really that hard to find out what the differences are between omni wheels, mecanum wheels, swerve drive, and mecanum drive?