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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
This has been brought up many times at the team forums. The answer from FIRST in the past has been that it's too complicated to have to assemble "custom" kits for each team, track them, and make sure they get to the right kickoff event. The implication was that it might actually be more expensive to give you a custom kit of less stuff than to just give you want you don't need. There may also be a sponsor issue - much of it is donated and perhaps the sponsors are hoping you have a ingenious idea in week 3 and pull out their widget from the KOP and use it? (speculation on my part of course).
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I only suggested it because thee survey asked what type of kit we preferred based on 'complete robot' 'some parts that you may use' 'etc' and it asked how we preferred to choose the parts we wanted: -everyone gets the same, -kit A, B, or C, - ala cart, -etc.