Thoughts on Ri3D and BuildBlitz

[AquaMorph]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

Actually, you don't. You edited my quote to make me say what I didn't say. I fully support everything that the teams did, in terms of the quality of work, the design ideas, the reveals, and even the CAD and BOM documents. I think these things only help FRC in general.

As I said in an earlier post, I know that my opinion on the inner workings of VexPro and AndyMark is limited and ill-informed. As an outside observer, and since we were asked repeatedly by the original poster what we would change, I stated that it [i]looks[i] to me like there might be a connection between the owners of a business working on a project, and the amount of time and energy they would have for their core service. I could very well be wrong about this, as several of you have pointed out.

Oh I am sorry. I didn't link the two posts together and thought you were talking about something else.

I'd like to see it taper off from this year. I think they went a little too far, because everyone was excited by last year's result and wanted to participate.

This was very misleading because we were talking about changes to the whole building a robot in 72 hours. Everything after I agree was my opinion. I was not presenting it as yours.

I'm curious how people would feel if FIRST gave out a kit of parts that had instructions to build a fully working robot for the game. If inspiration is best achieved though having a successful robot why not do this? Maybe give it to rookie teams? Maybe this is the next progression from what people have learned from Ri3D.