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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
Effectively, we are now in the 2010 season. It started at about 6:45 pm EDT Saturday. Existing teams are free to do tons of pre-build-season work, both on robot prototypes and extra-curricular activities; why not rookies? (Just don't use any of the parts you fabricate before kickoff on your 2010 competition robot.) If there's no FLL team in your area to mentor, start one.
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Well you can indeed plan for it and work towards that goal. That sounds good to me, but there is a, albeit small, risk that we have had our last FIRST season. You never know, so UNofficially the season has started as you so astutely pointed out. Why not rookies? Well... can you actually be a rookie before you register for 2010? I don't know the answer to that question and therein lies the problem. FIRST has not clearly defined the WHEN part. Arguably though, when you pay your registration fee because they will not give you a kit of parts until you do.
Hey I never said I had a problem with local FLL teams. There are plenty around. And start a FLL team? Been there done that. SO I'm good.
And just as a reminder... all this is just my OPINION. But I also have the opinion that FIRST is not perfect so, what do I know.