Email from Jon Dudas

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Originally Posted by billbo911

Now here is a scary thought. We have to deal with this FMS for two more years.
With entry fees for your first regional at approx. $5K, that works out to a minimum of $500/match. (I know, ball park figures). At $500/match to potentially watch your robot collect dust for 2 min. 15 sec., I don't think anyone will be satisfied with anything less than "We found the cause, it was... and the solution is...". No spin, no beating around the bush, just straight talk and answers.

Is FIRST capable of this? Absolutely! Are they willing to do it? We'll see.
My vote is that they will.

No I actually won't even be satisfied with that.

I want to see FIRST deliver on a solution in which I never again have a team tell me they've been told their robot is bad news. Followed by watching them have no hope of understanding why.

Words are meaningless. The problem is tangible. It failed for real and is on recording forever. The solution needs to be just as tangible. The education from it just as available. Especially if they are going to tell the community to sit on their hands waiting.