[dooey100]

Coming from a rookie team, I would be very dissapointed if FIRST switched back to VEX next year. Regardless of which platform is "better" the cost of having to buy another complete kit next year would be too much. The program will be expenxive either way, and I know that the only way I managed to convince my school to let us have a team was by showing them that the high cost only applied for the first year, and that there would be very little additional cost next year.

That said, our team coulld always implement our ideas, and although we sometimes had to make workarounds to accoplish what we wanted we never had to abandon an idea because we couldn't do it with the parts we had. Could it use some improvements? Definately. Was it so bad that it should be completely abandoned? Definately not.