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Re: New FIRST competition structure in Michigan
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Originally Posted by tawnos23
Pros:
Multiple Events!!! - This would be a first for my team. We have never been able to raise the money to go to multiple events.
No Shipping - For those local teams who remember shipping was terrible this year, with our UPS (or Fedex I don't actually remember) calling us at the end of the last day of build season saying they wouldn't be able to pick up our robot on time.
Cons:
No Practice Day - For Team 240, and I'm sure many others, practice day is the first time our robot sets its wheels on the field. Without a practice day it will be very difficult to implement a good autonomous/hybrid mode.
Additional Cost for Michigan Championship - Even if our team made it to the Michigan Championship, I'm not sure we would be able to raise the funds to compete in it.
Overall:
I like the idea. I think its going to give us more time to compete with our robot while still keeping costs down. And as mentioned, its a pilot, if it doesn't work FIRST can kill it. If it does work, however, I can see this moving on to all of FIRST.
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I think practice days should still be part of a regional competition.
Its not that I think teams need more time to fix any bugs that their robot has, its the other factors that we have no control over.
In 2006 and '07 when we tried to calibrate and get our CMU cam to work properly, different venues lighting were slightly different causing what we think is the reason for its malfunction at times. It also gives teams time to meet each other, check out other robots, and scout.
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