[Swan217]

I completely support Wayne in this challenge. In this week's FIRSTruth episode, I explain how instrumental this policy will be for the competition. As a summary, basically if you don't make sure all of your alliance partners have autonomous hybrid (And this year's algorythm should have you playing with every team), you will go nowhere. If everyone's robot has autonomous hybrid, then everybody wins, and the competition will be much more exciting.

As the way I see it, it's up to every team to make sure that they have a basic hybrid mode program. They need to try, even if it doesn't work. The mission to the veterans is that they need to be the wingflaps for the young teams to lift off with, not the entire jet engine. Everybody has to do their part, and if they do, it makes the challenge much easier for the veterans participating. But if you selfishly don't bother helping your fellow teams, and you end up winning the regional, or Chairmans, or any technical award, you don't deserve it and you have failed in the mission of FIRST.

For the young teams: It's ok if you fail, but at least TRY to get your hybrid working, and the veterans will be there to help you along.