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Originally posted by GregTheGreat
As much as this might seem "crazy" or an off the wall idea I am going to say it anyway.

I would personally like to see "robot matches", now I know what you all are thinking, but think of how many times you have gone to competition and your "team driver" (one, two, etc.) people are the only ones that get to drive a robot in a competition setting. I would like to see a "mini-field" set up even if it is just a 10 foot by 10 foot area (does not have to be carpeted) where you can bring last years robots, practice robots, edu-bot robots, ne thing with wheels that moves and have mini-events with other teams and just have fun. I think that this would be a great way to interact with other people. I know personally that meeting someone new over a friendly robot match is very beneficiary to relations between teams.

If you think about it, we all have the same thing in our robot, It does not matter if you are on the top end of the spectrum such as Wildstang or Chief Delphi, or on the other end, as a rookie team with little experience. We all put the same 6 weeks of work in, and we all read the same manuals, refer to the same part diagrams, and use the same auto-desk programs to create our images. What better way to meet with other teams then to talk to them about what we know....ROBOTS. The discussion and driving of practice robots, last years robots, thrown together in the basement robots....will bring us together. How many times at a regional did you really want to go against a certain team just to see what happened, and never got that chance, in a "mini-event" like this you would be able to do fun matches, drive every kinda drive system imaginable, and learn what other techniques can be used in creating your robot for the next year. Knowledge is power, and most of us FIRST people want every bit of it that we can get, what better way to get it then to talking to our equals from other teams, and getting a better idea of other peoples idea.

Well that is just a suggestion, I am not saying you have to agree, just simply stating my opinion.

-Greg The Great
Most teams would have trouble shipping a second robot to the regional. It was enough hassle, this past year, getting even one robot at some events, much less two.
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