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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Perhaps you meant maliciously amateure?  Anyway, yeah. Most of the rumors about teams are untrue. And if anyone/ any team does have maliciously amateur practices, all I care about is that I'm not a part of it. If they don't want to be graciously professional, that is their own choice, it does not concern me nor should it concern anyone else. Just everyone do your best to be a gracious professionalist.
Now, for the issue of building things over the summer and whatnot. I can pretty much just second what Cory said. Nobody uses custom pre-built stuff on a competition robot and learning by doing no matter what time of the year it is, is both gracious and professional. That is how technology advances. |
I can tell you that our 2004 desing came mostly from the prototype chassis that 254 and ourselves put together in the offseason and competed in the CalGames. We wanted to have some experience working together, and we wanted to try out the six-wheel drive system.
Tht doesn't make us ungracious. We never used any of the parts on our finished robot. We changed some things in our competition design, and we re-machined everything. It just gave us practice. As long as there are no parts added from outside the build period, then there is no violation of any rule in FIRST. It's all about advancing technology, and it's hard to do that in only six weeks a year.