JVN's Reflections on the 2011 Championship

[Chexposito]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

If you ask me, this type of behavior on behalf of FIRST shows that the concept of Gracious Professionalism means nothing to them.... Now I'm questioning why I spend a bunch of my free time making the FRC Spyder app that helps support FIRST.

I agree, with you. They seem to be doing the say one thing and do another. From what i've done with non-FRC robotics VEX is clearly the better. FTC is really expensive with the TETRIX stuff. VEX is nice to work with it's the closer of the two to a FRC type event in customization, etc. I like Victors more too because they don't have an over-current fault state. Jaguars do and trigger before a breaker, which means for my team, no arm going up on a Jaguar. Probably got a little too specific there, but I agree that FIRST isn't holding up their own ideals.

Thank you for making FRC Spyder. It is the best thing ever, especially at competition. When pit admin. decided to announce to not use it, we all just looked at each other like "are they kidding us?". FRC Spyder at world championships was 100% about everything. I don't know what many teams would do without it. The normal scrolling thing FIRST has on the flat screens failed and they just scrolled through a webpage and they wonder why we use this awesome, not failing app.