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Originally Posted by Jack Jones
We don’t need the powers-that-be to schedule our priorities.
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However...
There is escalation in FIRST.
Team AA builds a shifting transmission, and increases the level of competition. Now lots of other teams think they need a shifting transmission to keep up.
Team BB has a swerve drive, so now others feel the need for a swerve drive to be competitive.
Team CC has the resources to build 2 robots and give their drivers TONS of practice time/robot tweaking time, so now many more teams feel the need to do this.
Jack,
We can set our own priorities, but in some cases that means making the decision to put in a substantial amount of extra time, or being less competitive (due to this escalation). Many of us (most of us) would put in the extra time, because we care, and because we strive to achieve.
FIRST it seems, would elminate this decision, by eliminiating the escalation.
Any teams that want a practice bot, needed to get it done earlier. If you couldn't get both done before the end of the 6-weeks, then you should have made some hard compromises. (i.e. we can't build 2 swerve drives, but we can build 2 6WD robots, we'll do 6WD instead.) These compromises may not be pleasant (why be ambitious and risk missing the deadline?) but them seem to have become necessary.
-JV