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Re: Alliance Captain versus last pick in Alliance Selection
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I wouldn't even call their 2008 robot "simple." The swerve drive they built is already beyond the capability of most teams, let alone packing it all into such a tiny package.
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I wouldn't remotely consider it simple either, and yet I'm constantly hearing it described as such, and lumped in with some of the more classical examples.
(I could write a whole white-paper on gross misuse of the word "simplicity," often retroactively, within the FIRST community).
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