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Originally Posted by Nate Smith
They are literally collecting tons of materials for all the kits...one fun statistic they mentioned is that if they collected all the wire included in everybody's kits, it would circle the earth 500+ times (going from memory on that one, so those numbers might not be exactly right, but it was some extremely large number, i know that much)...
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If there were 1500 FRC teams in 2008, and they received enough wire to circle the earth 500 times, each team would have received nearly 44 million feet of wire! I think the figure 1/500 times around the earth, with each team receiving about 175 feet of wire, sounds more reasonable.
Anyway, any team that has hauled home the KOP can believe the part about "tons of materials."
The main thing to keep in mind is that FIRST does NOT want teams designing their competition robots before Kickoff, so usually they keep everything secret. The 2009 control system is the only exception I know of. (I assume everyone has seen the threads about that.)