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Re: [FTC]: FVC (Vex) VS. FTC (Tetrix)

I would have to 100% agree with Chris.

Just because of the way some things in FIRST work, we had to have two FTC teams but also signed up VRC teams for the new year. Nobody on the team wanted to even spend money on, what we thought, was the over hyped FTC tetrix kit. If we didn't also have a FTC team though it would look bad for a team's image.

Our kids really hated the kit from this year. The cost was nowhere near competitive enough to keep us out of VEX and the quality of the VEX parts is that much better as well.

If we had the choice that didn't make the team look bad for dropping FTC altogether, we would just have 5 VRC teams at the high school. The school even questioned why we spent money from the budget on FTC kits if the kids didn't like them.
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