Ideas to move in the direction of making FIRST competitions 'fair'

[Jack Jones]

I hate to rain on the "give rookies more time" parade, but some could start a new team each year and use the extra time to build two or three robots and fine tune the rookie drivers. The win at all cost sponsor could continue to drop the third year team, start another, and thereby always field two at a time with a significant advantage. There are always ways to manipulate the system.

IMO, the best way to make things most unfair is to have different rules for different people.