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Re: New FTC Platform

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Originally Posted by gblake View Post
OK, I too like the idea of hoping the new system will be more reliable and then trading a devil I know for one I don't. Oops, I'm sorry I got that backwards. What would have been wrong with unveiling a proposed system this year and evaluating it in the hands of users and in competition environments for a season before switching????
Although not on an extremely large scale, this appears to be what they are doing with the pilot teams that are going to be playing at championships.

FIRST is in a bad situation. Assuming the IFI breakup had to happen, then they seem to be doing their best to get a new program set up. Keep in mind that FTC-Vex was almost entirely based on IFI components. They are going to have to do the same thing with FRC in the next year, the difference being that in FRC, you usually can't use past components anyway, so people will be less bothered. A more negative way to say it is: FRC participants are USED to buying the same stuff every year, while this comes as a big shock to FTC participants (particularly since the FTC system is advertised as low-cost).

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