[Racer26]

Wow... I'm totally blown away that IFI and FIRST are parting ways after this many years... If thats the case, then I'm way off base, and I might not be a very happy camper next year. If we're moving away from an All-IFI setup, I hope they go all open electronics, outside of the RC. Basically the same rules as now, but you can use any speed controllers/relays (IFI or otherwise) that you want, and they MUST be fed from the ports given to us. (under control of a master CPU so they could still disable us.)

Otherwise, you're going to have a TON of veteran teams with YEARS of stockpiled Spikes/Victors that would now be totally useless. This is part of how we've collected so many spares, is by being a 5th year team.

Never mind that theres likely to be growing pains, stemming from trying to change what is tried, tested and true. Namely, all the field control setup.