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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
I hope you are not asking that we disassemble a perfectly good practice robot in order to bring spares to a competition.
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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
Regarding "extreme collaboration" from last year, we need to keep in mind that these teams were approved by FIRST to do this. Also, one of these collaborating teams won the Chairman's Award at the Championships (kudos to 254).
So, while some may think that this is wrong, FIRST has approved and awarded it.
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I've never publicly found fault with extreme collaboration. My own personal opinions on the subject are that I'd rather be on a team that built it's own entire robot, but if two (or six or a hundred) teams want to collaborate and outsource, more power to 'em. It's a novel, interesting solution to the problem that FIRST has given us.
My point is not that those other things I mentioned are bad(except for practice bots at comp, and I've already harped on that
enough), it's that building robot parts before competition is bad. I think that we are in agreement on this point. If the six week build season is an important part of FIRST, then it is important to respect that by not beginning to build before the season starts.