[sdcantrell56]

I guess my question then is why do we even need to impose rules to try to level the playing field. No matter where you are in the real world there will always be people or companies with more or less than you. I know our team budget does not even come close to many other teams but that is ok. It makes the accomplishment that much sweeter. Additionally, those teams who do have more should feel great for achieving all that they have. It takes a ton of work to obtain funding and tooling to be able to get to the level of some teams and that should be applauded. I think the FIRST model is fine and instead of trying to force the field to be "level" through a rule (G14), we should just embrace that some teams have more and some have less and no matter the situation you can build a very good robot. I know that I will be pushing and motivating our team to seek out more sponsors and such and to way day grow our program into one as incredible and efficient as 217.