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Re: Game Manual - Team Update - 2014-03-11

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
Is it really that big of a deal to prepare for competition? If you want something available, do what you need to do to bring it into the venue with you at load in. It's that simple. Thousands of teams do it, why should some teams have the privilege of a trailer full of stuff outside that they can pick and choose from during an event?

I would certainly argue that it's not "forcing teams to spend money/time for no net gain" - It's forcing teams to plan ahead, organize, and prepare. If you're presenting some new wonder-gadget for your company, odds are you bring spares with you to the venue. Odds are you have supplies to fix anything conceivable that could go wrong. Odds are you have a plan for the entire event, with sufficient redundancies that the product launch doesn't become a flop. It's the same thing here.

Thousands of teams do not adequately prepare for events. How many teams are bringing in full backups of cRIOs, PDbB, speed controllers, motors, radios, sensors and other COTS items? I would wager that not many teams at qualifying events have backups of absolutely everything that needs to go on the robot (for COTS items). Teams that are bringing extra parts benefit everyone since these teams can lend these items out to teams who need them.
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