[McVey]

Originally Posted by The Lucas

Perchance do you have an old adaptor (WGA600N) and your alliance partners have the new adaptor (WET610N)? They are now making it a point to turn on all the new adaptors on first then the old ones.

I'm pretty sure that at the regionals coming up (and especially at Atlanta) the field operators are going to become very strict about this. At the Virginia regional the field supervisor told each team in specific when to turn their robots on which helped when things were really crashing over and over.

Originally Posted by FRC4ME

Hey...Robots are cool. Fundraising is boring. Every team knows that.

Part of the issue with the awards that focus on fundraising / community and whatnot, is that large teams have a higher chance of winning them. If you have 60 team members, I imagine a good number of those kids have an opportunity during the build season to intentionally participate in non-directly-robot things to get such awards. On the other hand, small teams of something like 10 members generally have no free members to contribute time to that sort of thing. Of course, this just further pushes the value of growing teams, but just saying the important stress size puts on things. Of course, once a small team wins one of these awards, isn't it so much cooler too? Everything seems to be a double edged sword...