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but you forget one small, slightly important detail...
battle bots (or at least the good ones) have defenses against the arena hazards. be it an inch thick metal plate on the bottom to protect from killsaws, or something to absorb the shock of the giant hammer, they are designed to take that force. a FIRST bot is not.
take my team's robot for example. everyone's probably seen it. two treads for slow power, and four wheels for fast with slightly less power. i'm sure if we went up against a battle bot, we'd be able to push them around with no problem. but, if we were to get pushed into say a killsaw, it's all over. treads, gone. wheels, pretty much gone. frame, nice big chunks taken out, a real pain to repair. so, despite the raw power, 810's robot is not, will not be, and never was, a battle bot. sure, with way too much time and effort we could convert it, but there's no point. it's easier to build one from scratch. it's not that a battle bot is hard to build, it's just a completely different thing from a FIRST bot.
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