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Lots of robots on the sidelines
Posted by Frank.

Coach on team #97, Psychedelics, from CRLS and MIT.

Posted on 1/17/2000 8:54 PM MST


In Reply to: Consider the following... posted by Joe Johnson on 1/17/2000 7:02 PM MST:



I agree with you totally on this one. I can see that FIRST wants teams to stop designing after the robots ship, but simply making a spare of a part, or even more important, making a part that you broke at a competition seems like it is necessary to have a competitive game in FL.

We all know that over the years, teams have changed designs between competitions and other teams and FIRST sometimes saw that as unfair. But this is not about changing anything, it's about getting your robot back into a working state. There are some parts on a robot that take many days to machine or assemble due to their complexity. Does FIRST really want to say to any team that breaks one of these parts in a regional that they cannot compete in FL because they cannot remake the part in the 3 hours before 5PM on Saturday or before the close of the pit and inspections on Thursday in FL?

So there are 380+ teams in the competition this year. How many will we see travel to FL with a broken robot? And how many of those won't be able to compete because the lines at the machine shops were too long, or the part they need to make is too complex to create in a few hours?

Frank Bentley
Team 97 - MIT/CRLS/CHS/Teradyne


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