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Re: [moderated] Spare Parts Rule for 2005

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Originally Posted by Andrew
...if you allow 3 days prior to competition for additional fabrication and you require a team to check their parts in at the competition, the inspector would have a pretty good idea of what was realistic to fab and what wasn't in those three days.
Considering the disparity amoung teams and their resources, how could an inspector determine what is "realistic" for each team. Some teams have 100 people involved, some less than 10; some teams have more/better funding and could afford to "buy" 3 days of machine shop time in 7 different shops. I think that forcing the inspectors to try to determine what teams are capable of designing/building in 3 days is going to do nothing but create problems... not just problems, but big, ugly inconsistancies. (This is generally a bad thing for soo many reasons that I hope that I need not go into it...)


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... If you don't get everything done, you run against a hard limit; you're getting in a van or on an airplane.
So teams that have and attend a local competition (little or no travel time) have an advantage? What about those teams (the #s seems to increase every year) that compete in back to back competitions, competitions that are nowhere near each other? do they just lose out?


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As long as there is a rule that the super-majority of people understand and follow, the playing field will be level.
Not quite...A completely level playing field will never happen. It can only really be done by limiting innovation and creativity; putting a "freeze" on the good teams and let everyone else catchup... What the goal should be...Raise the low end of the field, so that any team can get a robot of some form moving and participating... something that is seems that FIRST is trying to do (the drill motor kits and related items)

I do like the idea of fabricating true,identical "spare" parts (with components broken down into basic mechanisms, not necessarily individual pieces) any time after ship. I know that there are still problems with that method as well though...

-Bill
 


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