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Originally Posted by DanTod97
I understand FIRST encompasses many things, but I am speaking more specifically of the competition itself, which is why I say even though I see this problem with it, I still love FIRST as a whole. I have not heard one reason why teams cant do all these wonderful things for the students, while still being fair competitively.
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The point here is
it is NOT unfair competitively
Teams are allowed and encouraged to utilize engineers! If they weren't, there would be an open class of competition.
If students are building the robots all by themselves, then as Dave Lavery once said, they are not "getting it". It's their fault for putting themselves at a disadvantage competitively, and more importantly, not giving themselves the strongest opportunities to learn.
The little guy can compete with the big guy in FIRST. If you have enough know how, desire, and time, you can do anything. Blaming it on the powerhouse teams not letting their kids do anything is totally inaccurate, imo.
I do know that I cringe every time someone brings up "lawyerism" or some other such nonsense as the reason their interpretation of the rules is right. - Kris Verdeyen [more] 
03-04-2008, 13:47
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