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Originally Posted by Rosiebotboss

It shouldn't be a "We can build a robot that can do everything" situation. Its more of a "we built a robot that does this very well.........and we're good at this other thing."

You are entitled to you opinion but who is one to dictate what a robot should or should not be? If a team can design a robot that does it all (like 254 and 60) and conquer the field why look down upon that? I look at it as an inspiration to try harder next year. Have you ever heard of the motto "do more"? And you know how they "did more," they reaserched and tested it before the build season.

Originally Posted by Dave Campbell

we do not design specific parts for our competition robot.

Then you are far behind the rest of us.

Originally Posted by Yov

it [pre-season designing] gives you an unfair advantage over rookie teams.

An advantage yes, an unfair advantage no. Every veteran team was a rookie at some point in time. And every rookie will become a verteran at some point in time. Everyone goes through the same process. How is this unfair? Furthermore, what is to say that a rookie team cannot research, design, build, and test robot components before the build season?