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Originally Posted by Jack Jones
Be careful what you wish. You could end up with an all rookie crew.
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I don't care who I end up with. How would you like to be a team that didn't have much money or experience, so your team designed a great defensive robot? Then you got to the only event you could afford to go to and the rules are changed so that unless you had a tube in your possession you couldn't play defense any more. You go from a team that could have made it to the finals or a team that would have done well in eliminations to a team that no one would pick because all they were allowed to do was drive around. All that time and money was wasted for that one event. Disgusting.
FIRST designs the game so that everyone can be competitive no mater how good your robot is. This year you could be ramp bot, tube bot, defensive bot, or hybrid. Then a ref changes the rules and you no longer fit in 2 of the 3 main categories. To everyone watching you look like a lousy team, after all that hard work you know you put in. You know how good you could have been, but all you can do is drive around. This is not at all what FIRST is about, and this isn't the first time this has happened.
FIRST does a great job, better then any company I have worked for. I hope they will put more checks and balances in place so that it can't happen again.
Jack, I am not attacking you, just speaking my mind on this whole thing.