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Originally Posted by JVN
In order to give them a chance we need to just eliminate all veterans all together.
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John, I appreciate your use of the excessive to make your point and flippant attempt to cease a discussion with which you do not agree. I'm sorry that I am not willing to lower myself to your level but I will try to answer your concern.
I am not suggesting that the playing field will ever be totally level and I am certainly not suggesting that we should throw the baby (great mentors) out with the bath water. I simply contend that teams should not be able to practice the new game with old robots. The great mentors will be able to take their 2005 team and make them superior without having a base running around on January 8th.
As an analogy to football, some teams in FIRST have 6 weeks (or more if they have a practice 'bot) to practice for their only football game versus some teams that talk about practicing for 5 weeks and only have a few days to practice for that same game. I believe that an average coach whose players practiced for about 6 weeks would routinely win over the great coach whose players only practiced for a couple of days. My proposal only shortens the 6 weeks. Competition wise, I guess by my definition, we will never know if we have any great coaches among us (I know we have great mentors) until they have similar conditions as their competition and their teams routinely perform at a higher level.
As a result of your excessive example, I will alter my proposal to note that teams can not use old robots throughout the entire season thereby not being able to turn an old robot into a practice robot after ship date. In other words, if a team builds two robots during the season, then they can have a practice 'bot but they can not convert an old robot into a practice 'bot.
I'll keep trying ... I'm sure someone will agree with me ... someday ... maybe not,
Lucien