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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
I find it amazing that people assume that these dominant teams that have been ruling the landscape of FIRST are afraid of a little adversity. So they have to redesign their drives system. You think they can't? They'll probably come up with something no one else even bothered to consider. It's what they do.
Thinking outside of the box is their mantra so unless you start cloning their braintrust and passing them out in the kit of parts to the other teams the field hasn't been leveled at all. They're still going to dominate.
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I'm sorry, but I really disagree with this. This game really evens the playing field. Between the new surface, which will make it that the vet's drive systems won't work, and the new control system, which means that everybody will start from the same point with programming, the vet's will start at the same point as the rookies.
While it's true that the veterans usually have more money, sponsorships, members, and experience, I think it's crazy to say that they'll be able to have more innovation than the rookies. Anybody can come up with a great idea; money and experience has nothing to do with a truly great idea. If anything, the rookies have an advantage in the innovation sector because they don't really know how things are traditionally done, so they have more ability to think of new things.
Just look at the world of business. Who generally comes up with the industry-changing innovations? Small start-ups. It's rare that you hear about big companies changing the game. Usually a start-up comes up with a great idea, and then a big company buys them.