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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
FIRST should, and I believe does, prioritize fixing the worst issues for the largest amount of teams. When it comes to obtaining game pieces, that obviously meant helping international teams. But, in my mind, addressing such a problem means bringing that portion of teams up to the level of everyone else, not making them better - if you make them better, all you've done is reverse the inequality. The end goal here should be to put all teams on an even playing field, and that could be done by expanding this program to include domestic teams as well.
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Sorry Jon but looks like you dont have idea in how is to be a international frc team.
Did you ever travelled 9000 KM (yes we use KM!
to get 1 spare game piece? I did
Did you ever travelled 9000 KM to get your kit of parts? I did 7 times!
Did you compete in 2009 being in a country where the field floor didint exist?
or where a good anual salary is less than the regional registration?
or did you never get you robot back from custons because the taxes for it are bigger than your anual salary + regional registration?
or the pain that is when just US uses imperial units and these are not avaliable in most countrys
I understand your point but basicly FRC is not getting close to "making them better" is just a simple fact of logistics, so teams from brazil for example can have a spare game piece in time for build season (brazil can take 3 weeks to clear custons) and if they start doing this for everbody now it will cost money and people dont want an increase in the regional registration price.