I didn't mean to come off quite so harshly, what I was trying to get at is that FIRST has always been about different teams solving problems differently, then competing to see whose ideas were the best. Having three identical robots seems to take away from that, focusing more on a "let's just win some competitions" attitude, and getting away from what FIRST is really all about, teaching and getting kids excited about technical fields like engineering and computer sciences. I'm not trying to chastise the Niagra teams, they have a legitimate and perfectly legal strategy, it just seems that if they win and other teams follow their example next year FIRST will have lost something that its always had.
--Without any intention of sparking a debate
abrockhoff