[EricH]

Originally Posted by rahilm

-Group 1 for FIRST Choice is an FTC kit and nothing else. You have to get it.
-FIRST was providing incentive earlier for FRC teams to get involved in FTC

Actually, you don't have to get anything in Group 1. (Or Groups 2-4). FIRST Choice is optional, and you can pick 3 items, as long as each is from a different group.

I'm thinking that the FTC kit is just to help FRC teams get people involved in FTC.

Could it be that there's a mini-robot, required or as a bonus? Possible. But if it has to remain tethered to the main robot... welcome to the biggest violations of the entanglement rule since 2002 (and then some). A number of tethers were run over that year. Some had mini-bots on the end.