[waialua359]

I have some issues in terms of not being able to receive a new RC and OI the following season.
With all of the hard work and efforts that go into creating a robot, stripping parts off of it for a newer robot seems like a waste of the efforts put into the stripped robot.
Every school has their own uses/non-use of their older robots once the current seasons are over. We certainly use ours for a variety of fundraising/public events and for robot driver training. As pointed out earlier, I hope that if this becomes standard practice, that registration fees would be adjusted accordingly, to give teams an option to obtain a "spare" one for the current season. This would make more sense and gives teams the flexibility to save on cost if they choose to reuse their old control system.
I highly doubt it as we all know that many of the parts are either donated or subsidized by donors. I wonder just how much these a la carte prices will be.
I realize that cost is a major issue for this whole situation, but I think its a step backwards from the progress made by teams who now are able to incorporate prototyping, driver training, and other creative ideas in their program when it comes to having a new control system every year in the kit.