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Darn Joel, you beat me to it :-)

What's the difference between lifting a robot and setting him on the other side of the field, and ramming a robot to push him across the field? It the 4 years I've been participating/watching this competition, there has been plenty of carnage due to ramming and pulling. I drove for the 2 years when I was a member of a FIRST team, and just ask Ken Patton about our races to get one of the black balls in 2000 :-) We both came out pretty beat up, and we lost in the semi's to them because I snapped an axle when we hit them/the wall. My point is, lifting a robot is alot less violent then ramming and beating on a robot to move it. So how is something that is less violent "not in the spirit of FIRST?" IMO, if you can't keep yourself from being picked up, you shouldn't complain. Someone came up with an effective idea, and if they use it to beat you, good for them!


That brings me to another rant. Please don't take this the wrong way, and if you don't like it, well, take it out on me or something :-)

I can't stand how there are some people that go off about how this and that are not in "the spirit of first." What really is the spirit of first? Is it going out and beating the pants off your opponet? Making the best animation? Having a bot that only students built? I think the only thing that really matters in this entire competition is how much the student learns. I think there have been several people/teams that have forgotten this. I'm not throwing names or pointing fingers, or saying every team out there is corrupt. I think that some people have just been too caught up with beating everyone else out on the field. Ok, I'm going to shut up now....
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