Discussion: Release Team Field Drawings Early

[gblake]

Originally Posted by bkahl

Confused about what you don't understand here...
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What does the "non-chairman's" phrase mean? Why do you jump to critique potential ideas with tangible goals to help teams and our program? And why do I get the feeling you don't care anything about actually building robots...?

Because you are over-reacting. I didn't critique anything. I asked for a little more info. But... you did jump to criticizing me. Please PM me with questions like those so that we can avoid taking this thread off on a tangent.

FIRST HQ says the Chairman's award is the highest honor they give to teams. If all other things are equal in a situation, it stands to reason that suggestions that move teams in the direction of earning a Chairman's Award are likely to receive more attention from FIRST HQ, than suggestions that don't. I try to keep that in mind.

While some teams that build OK robots, also have enough time, people, space, money, etc. to build several or a few field parts... the teams that struggle the most on-the-field, might suffer from being offered an additional task rather than benefit from the result it could produce. My personal attitude tilts toward finding ways to raise the very bottom of on-the-field performance before investing more in the rest of the spectrum.

That's just one facet of the conversation. Other posters have brought up other subjects that might or might not part of the situations the OP wanted to discuss/affect.

So, I asked.

Blake