"Spare Parts" Rules Are Broken

[Ricky Q.]

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

Darnit, darnit, darnit! That was our plan for the Midwest Regional. How did you know?!?

We had this grand scheme to bring in a 727 (747 was just toooo big!) with "TechnoKats 45" painted on the side and plop it down, right in the middle of the playing field. That would've been AWESOME! We were going for the spirit award, but now Dave has squashed our creative idea.

Hmmm... maybe we'll have to think of something else. Phooey on you, Dave!



Andy B.

Just like you Delphi teams, showing off all those millions of dollars you each get, while you are at it why don't you put a machine shop in the plane and fly it around during non-competition hours, do it over international waters too.

In all reality though, people that are crazy on FIRST teams will always be thinking/talking about what to do with their robots, that is their choice. After every Thursday or Friday at comeptition we will all sit down at dinner and talk about nothing but what we are going to do the following day, drivers and coaches will sit down and pound out strategy, programmers will pour over their code, and then we all charge into the pits and get to work. It is part of the challenge, get your ideas together and organized and get it done in the time you have. The time allotted to work on robots needs to be controlled and equal for all teams, that is just the way it is and the way it will be.