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Re: The Triplet Challenge

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Originally Posted by Derek Bessette
Although your sarcastic remarks don't warrant a response, I will give one anyway. People say I am too nice.

The truth is we don't know what will happen next year. I hope that Notre Dame High School in Welland will become the newest member of NiagaraFIRST. Based on their progress so far as a virtual team. they should be able to manage to build their own robot during their rookie season (as long as they can keep using the shop they found). I hope that 1503 and/or 1680 can build their own robot. We will sit down as a group at the end of the season and make the decision that we feel is best for the current and future students in the area.

Our teams have worked very hard for the success we have had this year. I am not going to apologize for winning a few regionals. We built inspiring robots, we seeded high, and we picked the best team available (although, I was a little unsure watching 217's autonomous mode in the semis at GTR - wow!).

Is collaboration the only way to grow? Of course not.
Does it work? So far so good. We'll see how the next couple years go.

Now, can we please keep this debate civil.

We will continue to defend our side, to show how collaboration can aid growth and we will listen to others opinions on how we can improve.
I am sorry if I came across rude, that was not my intent, I just noticed that the whole topic you had been defending the collaboration you had this year... now don't get me wrong I personally don't have a problem with collaborations, what I have a problem with is 10% of all robots at a regional being identical (as we saw at Waterloo) ... I do not see this being the meaning of FIRST, nor inspirational (as I find showing others that you can be effective with an array of designs inspirational, and at the same time innovative), yes your robot was an amazing accomplishment, and I applaud you on your design, its just I don't agree teams as developed as yourselves should have the need for carbon copied robots, I'm ok with it however if it is sharing individual designs with rookie teams or struggling teams. Sorry again.

David
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