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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint
Teams should push their limits, a regional of AM14U3's driving around playing defense is not one I want to watch.
Some of you are coming across very elitist. Will a team/student learn more from simply assembling kit bot or from trying something completely out of their comfort zone? Yes they should try to do it in the offseason, but if they only do FRC during build season, they should try something new.
Fail early and fail often, just learn from each one. It isn't a robot right?
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There are no wrong ways to learn in FRC (there are ways that align less efficiently with one's goals). However, I have spent years trying to teach folks that the learning experience that comes from optimizing a simpler system is just as valuable (and often more so because it's a less common experience) than taking on a bigger design spec. Teams can certainly learn a lot from building shooters and loaders of all types. Teams who don't invest time in a high shooter can also learn huge amounts about more detailed design optimization that is often drastically undervalued.
Personally, I've always found the FRC tendency to value the learning experience of attempting more "elite" bots versus the experience from building simpler ones to be ridiculously elitist. It's also a culture that generates a lot of common learning gaps like this. I admit we tend to overcompensate in an attempt to get
some teams to reassess. I do believe this is a year on which more robots than some other years can do all functions (certainly more than full-color, 30 point climb, floor pickup of 2013), but that doesn't mean everyone who might be able to automatically should.