COTS: How far should it go?

[Sunshine]

No Foster, I was not referring to you or your post in any way. It's not about you........ really.

Thanks for setting me straight (he says tongue and cheek), now I get it. The 15% are the enlightened ones. Obviously intellectually superior to the rest of us. You must be republican?

Yup, I can see it now. Two championships, one for the modified bots (race car reference) and one for non purchased robots.

Nationally we have finally figured out that you cant fix education by lowering the bar. I hope FIRST doesn't experience the same painful cycle.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Mr S, keep it professional. Politics doesn't come into this.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Mr S, keep it professional. Politics doesn't come into this.

COTS suppliers are just tools of the lamestream media!

RI3D-->3 sides to a triangle-->triangle = illuminati = Real Illuminati Triangle Development!

Einstein 2012 was a false flag!

As someone who typically operates in the top third of FRC and still finds myself struggling sometimes, I wonder why HQ pushes for proliferation of teams that will doubtlessly occupy the bottom 2/3. My team can only do so much compared to stronger teams, and even they can do so much compared to suppliers when it comes to lowering the barrier to entry to create a functional team.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Sunshine

Nationally we have finally figured out that you cant fix education by lowering the bar. I hope FIRST doesn't experience the same painful cycle.

Nobody is saying that we should lower the bar. Lowering the barrier to entry and "lowering the bar" are very different things. The bar is as high as each team sets it for themselves. The bar to win Einstein will always be high.