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Originally Posted by Matt Adams
There's been a couple of threads in the past asking which teams build two robots, and then one asking if building two robots is good for the students.
Can't we all agree, that having a 'No Practice Robots Allowed' rule in the future would be very a simple and effective way to reduce the gap between teams with lots of resources and those without?
FIRST often explains itself as a 6 week robot competition, but in all reality, for many 'have' teams, FIRST is a year-round, comprehensive program. The build season is simply split into 6 weeks of building followed by 6 weeks practicing, design tweaking and coming up with 8 hour buildable upgrades for the Thursdays of competition.
The 'have-nots' simply have a 6 weeks of building followed by a few weekends of competing.
Matt
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How does FIRST expect to let any drivers have any practice at all? If that rule were existing, I mean. But, yeah, I envy all those teams with the money and the talent and the capabilities to build two robots, but until someone does something, all we can do is watch and learn
-Gary (The Onion) Chaboya