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Implementation Suggestion
Posted by Dodd Stacy, Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.
Posted on 4/9/99 12:54 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Yet another compromise posted by Chris on 4/9/99 9:51 AM MST:
Try this, for all of us who have a hard time wrapping up the build phase and reclaiming our lives without the shipping deadline: We all ship as under the current rules, and we're down until our first Regional (or till the National, for those teams doing only the one). We play our Regional(s). Each team, after its LAST Regional, then has comp time with their robot as per Chris' formula (if they wish), and then ships to Orlando at the end of their comp time. This is dead level even for ALL teams on time for machine development/practise/etc. But it ALSO puts the same onus on all teams to put a ready-to-run bot in the box on the same date. Pretty embarrassing (and expensive) to show up at your first Regional not ready to rock (at least by Friday). It seems to me like this speaks both to equity and to human (engineer, anyway) nature. The teams who DO play many Regionals get the definite advantage of competition in developing their machine and their play. Those who don't get to spend time with their machine that the playing teams don't by virtue of being on the road and having fixed pit hours. It also gives time to rebuild serious smashups from a first and only Regional before the Nat'ls.
What do you think?
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