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Originally Posted by mathking
If I read your post correctly, you aren't saying that it bad for micro inspiration, just inefficient because of cost. I think that depends on the size of your team. We have two FTC teams now. To serve the number of kids we have on our FRC team we would need seven or eight more. And it would cost more than FRC. And there would be many fewer relationships built amongst our team members, both students and mentors.
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Yup, that is exactly the point I was trying to convey. And cost does not just mean monetary cost, but any other resource (time, capital, etc) that goes into running the FRC team as well. Depending on the amount and type of these resources at your disposal, different programs or combinations of programs might be the ideal scenario for you.
I just think the important thing to realize is to not just look at FRC in a vacuum. So many of these debates about the direction and future in FRC go nowhere solely because none of the people arguing want the same thing out of this program. A one-size-fits-all program simply cannot exist. In my opinion, FRC should go towards where it has an inherent advantage (macro-inspiration) over other programs. This direction (which specifics on is not really in the scope of this thread) might reduce FRC's ability for micro-inspiration, but I see this as an acceptable trade-off because there are several other programs that still excel in this area.