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Originally posted by sevisehda
Reading this post has given me an idea. How about a handicap/bonus for teams based on there robots cost. The max budget still being 3500$. The first 1000$ is free. The final score for each round is multiplied by 1.5. For every dollar used the multiplier is reduced by 0.0002. So if you used your entire budget you'd get a multiplier of 1. but if used none of it you'd get one of 1.5. It would make scoring more difficult but it would encourage teams to spend less(often if not always encourage in industry). Also this would definately help out teams with lower budgets. Many other design competitions often have some budget aspect to them so its not a new idea.
My 2 cents.
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Are you volunteering to be the one to count every nut, bolt, screw wire, and connector, measure all the extruded aluminum, steel, and plastic, and then verify the listed prices of each part?
FIRST needs to operate at higher efficiency with as many or less people than we've seen in past years. For that reason alone, I expect much more freedom in robot design and part usage. The less we have to worry about kit legal parts, the less
they have to worry about kit legal parts -- and they already have a lot to worry about.