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Re: Lesson Learned: The Negative

The other thing I noticed with that too is that you begin to see a lot of "prototypical" designs. I think back to when I was in high school and I would walk through the competition and all the robots were different. This year I walked through and it amazed me how many robots were remarkably the same. I guess the best example I have is team 121's robot. I saw a lot of robots that were quite similar to theres. Don't misunderstand me there robot was an awesome machine that is fully worthwhile to be similar to but I feel that some of the ingenuity within the FIRST community has been let out a bit. Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to take away from teams that have very unique characteristics (217, 1114...etc.) but I see a lot of the machines variety disappearing. Just some food for thought .

NOTE: This isn't designed to take away from anyone's achievements. I'm a firm believer in you get what you earn. If you won, you earned that win. You worked hard to be the best.
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