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Originally Posted by DanTod97
I understand FIRST encompasses many things, but I am speaking more specifically of the competition itself, which is why I say even though I see this problem with it, I still love FIRST as a whole. I have not heard one reason why teams cant do all these wonderful things for the students, while still being fair competitively.
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I'll issue an open challenge: I dare anyone to find a message from FIRST headquarters saying that FRC is meant to be fair. You're going to have teams that bring the knife to the gunfight no matter what happens, and despite the best efforts of a lot of great people. You will see those same people protest on these forums and elsewhere about any attempts by FIRST to limit their effectiveness by holding down the top teams (see any of the threads from 2005-2007 about fix-it windows), while any effort to bring the lowest teams up (such as the kitbot) is met by cheers all around.
It all goes back to trying to get everyone to bring their A-game.