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Re: Limitations too far?

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
If all you see is a box on wheels, then you probably haven't looked closely enough.

I figure I've seen over 740 FRC robots in person over the past six years, and several hundred more on webcasts, the Blue Alliance, etc.

The only ones that have been the same were the very few that were intentionally built to be "twins" or "triplets"... and even then there were tiny little differences.
I didn't mean to say every robot would be the same. I actually expect to see a large number of really cool drive trains underneath those boxes on wheels as well, and in the pits I'll be able to talk to the people who did the programming and hear from them how awesome their programming is, but when the matches start it isn't the programming that people see, unfortunately. Watching robots just driving around, not really doing anything else, has never been particularly interesting (barring a few of the ridiculously fast designs last year).

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You are right that the top teams will still be awesome, but not because of some divinely inspired awesomeness that only they can posess. The top teams are top teams because of the people on those teams. If you want to beat 1114 all you have to do is work harder and smarter (all year round for several years). Either that or wait for the occasional match where they break down. They are only moderately dangerous when they are sitting still!
I believe you misunderstood what I meant. I mean the top teams will still be on the top because of their members, as you say. Of course our team is going to do it's best to challenge them, like we have for years now, and we are going to push the boundaries of this game, and we are going to go out onto the field and attempt to redefine "high score, and work as hard as we ever had to beat the 1114s and 217s of FIRST.

I just don't think us doing that will look as exciting as past years, I guess. I mean god only knows, really. The matches could turn out to be intensely exciting.
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