FRC Blogged - Team Counts, Kit of Parts Drive System Option, Windows 8

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Taylor

I was a bit surprised at how few veteran teams took advantage of the vouchers, but it confirmed one of my worries. Judging by the conversations on Chief Delphi, the vast majority of teams were looking to go the voucher route.
To me, this speaks to the types of teams that frequent (and post on) chiefdelphi. Maybe I have a skewed view of the past, but it seems like back in the day ev-ry-body was active on this website.

Generally, conversations often only include people who are really interested in a topic - in this case, people who saw that voucher option and seriously considered it. I know for my team, we saw the option and immediately decided against the voucher (thus it wasn't a point of interest for any of us). We've had great success with the KoP chassis, and while the one time we did our own chassis was successful, we realized that the process of doing our own chassis ate up too much time and offered very little benefit over the KoP system.

Also keep in mind that, even if every team is represented here on CD, many, many people aren't as obsessed about robotics as those who post on here year round. Those others will follow CD during the season to see what people are doing and to ask questions pertaining to the game and their robot. You don't really have those questions to draw people here in the off season.