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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Finally, a delivery date of kickoff is too late (see above). When asked, I stated I need it next week. FIRST, if you are listening, please consider giving some teams prototype systems now so we can break them. Give us the chance to work out problems and solve them before the 2009 season starts.
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As a mentor of two different rookie teams, I completely agree with Al's statements, rookies will have a lot of trouble debugging the new control system when things are not working. Also, I hope FIRST distributes KITS to teams that agree to throughly test the new control system and publish their results online before kickoff.
I can understand that giving KITS to all teams will be a major hurdle, and some will feel wronged if their team does not get a KIT. However I will not feel bad if my team does not get a KIT early, but I will be quite worried if ZERO teams receive a KIT early.