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Originally Posted by dlavery
... NASCAR drivers swap parts between different cars, and different teammates, all the time.
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I personally, don't like the idea of making FIRST into NASCAR. We'll all end up with the same robot and the competition comes down to 2 things, drivers and who can "push" the rules the furthest. My favorite part of FIRST is seeing all of the different robots and solutions.
I'm also afraid that if FIRST continues to support this type of "advantage" for teams, this "smart" behavior, it is going to increase the barrier of entry for new teams (you need more resources, more money, more people etc; which may be hard for many new teams to deal with). If FIRST wants to continue to grow the number of schools and teams we can't make it harder for new teams to have fun and be competitive.
I really think the ultimate goal of FIRST is to increase and support the level of education on a local school level (across the world), the harder it becomes for a single school to enter/compete, the less effective FIRST becomes.