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Originally Posted by Natchez
The harm is that veteran & wealthy teams gain a HUGE advantage over less experienced and poorer teams. First, the negative of letting you look and touch parts.
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Lucien,
That is an interesting idea, though I think we should take it at least one step further. I mean, in the interest of leveling the playingfield:
JVN's Rule:
RULE 041209-C - Any participant of the FIRST robotics competition who participated in the 2004 season, or in any of the previous 12 seasons may NOT participate on ANY team in the FRC 2005 season. They may not interact with members of any team in any way.
I mean, this is the obvious next step. How can we level the playingfield without taking those "wealthy", "veteran" teams, just loaded with valuable mentors who have gone through FIRST before down a notch. Frankly, I can't imagine how a rookie mentor can compete with an Andy Baker, or a Raul Olivera, or a Bill Beatty. It's just not fair. In order to give them a chance we need to just eliminate all veterans all together.
OR...
We can realize that (as Dean himself has said) FIRST ISN'T fair, and it doesn't NEED to be fair.
Then maybe, we can all just have some fun building robots in 2005.
John