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Re: practice robot for the "have nots"
For all the "have not" teams, we must assume that the game will go on with the practice robots for the "other" teams. Therefore, a "have not" team can do the following:
1) Become a "have" team by doing a lot more fund-raising and awareness-generating in their community to fund a 2nd robot.
2) Partner with another team in their town that has a 2nd robot. You never know if those two teams will be pitted against each other or will be drawn as alliance partners; so just ask the other team to time-share their practice robot, field, etc.
3) On your own "have not" practice field, just simulate a robot by pushing a team member around in a wagon or shopping cart. Sure, the actual driver skills are important, but even more important to the driver is the strategy of the game (traffic on-field, other alliance robots, own alliance robots, etc.)
4) Look on E-Bay for used FIRST robots...ha, ha.
The game moves forward ONLY.......
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