A Request for transparency from FIRST

[Basel A]

Team up with FTC?
There's a grand total of 10 FTC teams in Michigan.
180 FRC vs. 10 FTC?
It's just not a doable solution.

Deploying someone else's minibot without having designed your deployment specifically for it is near impossible.

Looks like the only remaining solutions are:
1. Mass Building of minibots between FRC teams; which results in the same budget issues, design issues because teams will surely disagree which means lost time
2. Suck it up; Budget issues, issues with the product you're forced to buy, unless you have:
3. No minibot (your robot most likely will not perform as well in competition)

[Andrew Schreiber]

Mods, can we get the Minibot stuff moved to one of the Minibot displeasure threads? It has nothing to do with transparency.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Team up with FTC?
There's a grand total of 10 FTC teams in Michigan.
180 FRC vs. 10 FTC?
It's just not a doable solution.

Deploying someone else's minibot without having designed your deployment specifically for it is near impossible.

Looks like the only remaining solutions are:
1. Mass Building of minibots between FRC teams; which results in the same budget issues, design issues because teams will surely disagree which means lost time
2. Suck it up; Budget issues, issues with the product you're forced to buy, unless you have:
3. No minibot (your robot most likely will not perform as well in competition)

Well, if we designed our minibot deployment mechanism to be modular (which we did), then we might well be able to accommodate whatever minibot happens to roll down the pike...