Limit team $

[Don Wright]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

I would wager only a team or two (tops) would be in that "kit assembled" division...

Yes...we know that our robots would be in that division... Everything is so carefully planned out and nothing looks like it was added on after the initial design...ever.

We are sorry.

[Gregor]

Where did this notion of trying to even the playing field come from, and why are people trying to enforce it?

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Gregor

Where did this notion of trying to even the playing field come from, and why are people trying to enforce it?

I know exactly where it's coming from. As children we were babied, we got everything handed too us. Everything was made easier as to not hurt our feelings or make everyone feel like a winner. Unfortunately it has gotten so mad that in some kids sports they dont keep score because "everyone's a winner."

Now we expect this same kind of treatment as young adults, but sorry kids, you need to wake up to live in the real world.

Life is not fair, get used to it!

[George1902]

Isn't coopertiton about working to reach higher than our peers rather than dragging them down?

In that light, we should be efforting to bring each team's budget *up* to $50k, not limit our brightest stars to that level.

[waialua359]

Being from Hawaii, I find this thread quite amusing.
Pretend you're us but you live where you do, and all FRC events are held in Hawaii, minus your home event. How much would that cost you?

FRC is an international world event, not a US mainland one only.

[SteveGarward]

This amuses me somewhat too. Being (originally) from Australia, consider teams outside the US - in Australia, Israel, Turkey... Limit the team $$$ and you limit this to a (mainland) North America competition.

I have some similar issues with the district model because of similar distance/cost issues, but that is for another thread somewhere.

Apart from that, I don't think you can reasonably limit the amount of money a team puts in to inspiration, for their own team or for the community beyond the team, if they are willing to work for it.