Should teams be pushed to make higher quality robots?

[Arefin Bari]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

Plain and simple, I think some teams don't try hard enough.

I hate to go offtopic, but if you are telling me that it's a "fact," I beg to differ. There is no way in heck teams don't try hard enough. I am good friends with almost every single team in Florida as well as some teams in different states. Do you know how many times I get messages asking me, "What can I do to keep the team going?" You simply don't say that a team doesn't try hard enough. There are many students on the team. I can understand if you tell me that every single student don't try hard enough. But there are atleast 10 who dies for the team. They try their best. I don't think any team in FIRST will say, "No, we don't want a mill, we can just use a cordless drill." There are teams out there who are in need of money, they are trying their best out there.

Let me give you a good example which you will see happening this coming season. Two teams that I know and work closely with has about 500 bucks on their account. 6,000 bucks is due on December 9th. Watch them raise the money and go out there to compete.

Now back to the topic. I am personally happy with the rules. No matter what, you are going to be unhappy about certain things and think what if it was the other way. That's life. Keep in mind, FIRST works their butt off to come up with every single rule and tries to satisfy all teams.