11-01-2011, 22:10
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,589
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Re: Team Update #1
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
FIRST. You made a horrible call, you took what was potentially a good engineering design challenge, and turned it into a last ditch effort to save their inferior (to vex) FTC design competition.
It's now a challenge of who can make the SAME minibot lighter. Yay.
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My thoughts exactly. For a second I thought that was an intentional allowance - you can either use FTC or think outside the box!
But no. FIRST isn't happy until overpriced, crap Tetrix parts are in the hands of every single FIRST team whether they like it or not.
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