Team Update 4

[TubaMorg]

Without directly addressing any of the overblown complaints evident in this and other threads regarding minibots, I would just like to remind everyone:

THERE IS NO CRYING IN ROBOTICS!!!

There has been a number of posters implying they are done with FIRST because of the harsh requirements of minibots. Booo hoooo! I tell you what, the whining gets louder every year, and THAT is what may drive me away. Download the rules, build your robot, and compete. Simple.

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by TubaMorg

Download the rules, build your robot, and compete. Simple.

Couldn't have said it better myself, Its just like the real world, Design criteria change, sometimes your asked to use a certain brand of parts because of a company's affiliation with another.

Get over it, Accept the challenge, and focus your brain power on developing the best solution to the challenge FIRST gives you!

- Bochek


Edit - I haven't read the entire thread, this is in response to the first few pages.

[Chris is me]

I don't want to "get back into it" as I think my posts were very rash and not well thought out - but I think those saying "these are the parts you're allowed and they happen to be one company" are completely missing the point of what anyone was offended about in this thread. In other, earlier threads, a different tune was sung, but do read up on what the objectionable part of this update was. The restriction on aluminium parts wasn't really it.