900's Championship Cheesecaking Chronicles

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

It is my sincere hope that FIRST can figure out a way to prevent this in the future.

Joe J.

I'm going to take your comment with the spirit in which I think you meant it and not as an insult. Saying "no disrespect" and then "horror show" in the same sentence does not come off as respectful. I don't think you meant it that way and I think I know what you meant.

I personally feel like the fix for this is better game design. I don't feel like you can stop teams doing what we did without seriously hurting something truly wonderful about collaborate at-event designs and re-designs. We used COTS items and KOP components to do what we did. The few custom components were well under the 30 pound limit. I would not want to remove the ability of any team to redesign their robot at an event.

I don't know that you can make it illegal but you can remove the incentive for anyone to do it. I think that is the best method forward.

I'm glad we are all talking about this though. It should be talked about.