[Greg Marra]

This thread has started to drift a little, but I will pull it back towards the original focus.

The kitbot frame is one of the best things FIRST has done to help rookie teams. Teams that don't have access to machine shops or lack the engineering support to design their own frames can use the kitbot frame easily. It is robust, comes with a fairly good drive train already, and is already designed and fabricated. There may be a weight/customizability/quality trade off, but if you have the choice between having your not-so-hot self-made frame breaking and you being dead for the rest of the competition and using a less-than-perfect kitbot frame, I think the decision is easy.