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I'm trying to leave a comment on Bill's Blog that is more substantive than, "you lie," but that's pretty well how I feel about how this "price reduction" has been handled.
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Well it's not a "lie", it's more like "spin". The problem with spin is that 90+% of us are engineers and at some point we turn the spin off and look at the facts. I've seen the FIRST Spin Machine (tm) in action over the FTC change, with the "better, faster, stronger, real robot parts".
And we are seeing the FIRST Spin Machine again. They would have been much better off saying: "Hey, FRC is expensive, we know that and we have an idea:
- Rookie teams get all the KoP parts for their entry fee
- Veteran Teams can get a reduced KoP at a reduced price and buy extra stuff they need (which may save them money)
- Or Veteran Teams can get the full kit for an extra $1500
and to help out the Rookie teams in these tough times Dean is going to cough up $1500 for each rookie team to help them out."
At which point the entire discussion is how smart FIRST is and how cool Dean is and this is why we do FRC.
Instead of the discussion we are now having.
Spin, spin, spin, good for drive trains, not so much for people.