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Originally Posted by Mr.G
4. Teams that build a second robot have an advantage. NOT. We have done it and we waste all our time building the second robot and end up worse in the end, but the students are still learning.
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I have to disagree with you here. It is becoming increasingly difficult to be successful on the field in FRC without a practice bot. Had we not had one in 2006 or 2007, there's absolutely no way we'd have won two regionals each year, or been even above average. Both years we put the robot in the crate having had zero drive practice, and in the case of 06, a non functional robot.
Pretty soon I don't think anyone who goes to fewer than two regionals, and doesn't have a practice robot will be able to really do very well. It's pretty much becoming an arms race.
I don't like the fix-it windows now. I think they're very awkward for the teams, and unenforceable to start with. I do believe that there has to be some sort of restrictions to what you can and can't do, or some teams will literally build an entirely new robot. I'm all for having chances to fix/modify things that didn't work quite the way they were expected, or making spare/replacement parts that have the same functionality as the previous part.