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[Madison]

Originally Posted by FierceRabbit

Say a rural (new) team with a $8,000 6 week material budget has the opportunity buy this system. This would give them a huge advantage on the playing field. Not only could they focus more on designing a device for the "Game", but they would be a competitor with the veteran teams. For once the teams that have $200,000 dollar spending budgets and unlimited resources may not have everything going for them anymore. The level of competition may be set higher...is this a bad thing? You scared?

You people complain about following the rules, and doing what FIRST says. Call FIRST and ask them, I would bet they would be all for these systems. The bottom line is that a pre-built system like this will create more opportunities for smaller low-budget teams, but also create more exciting game play. Get over it. If you have a problem with a pre-built system, dont buy them, design your own, just hope that the team that purchases a gearbox or a track system doesnt run your robot into the wall.



fiercerabbit

If y'all have the mechanisms in place to genuinely begin the production and sale of these systems in accordance with the rules set forth by FIRST for consideration as a vendor, you may want to look at other folks serving the same market and learn a thing or two about how to behave.