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Posted by Ken Leung at 2/8/2001 1:37 PM EST
Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School. In Reply to: Silliest Rule Ever by FIRST!! Posted by Raul on 2/8/2001 9:11 AM EST: Ah... finally someone said what I want to say long time ago when I first read update 6. When I first read about this update, I wondered how many teams are actually going to follow this rule... FIRST is finally pulling the limit now. And then suddenly I thought of our storage system where we categorize every little small stuff (ranging from bolts to sprocket to screw, etc.) I suddenly remember I just finished sorting out our orders from small parts into those boxes, and realized it's going to be a pain-in-the-@$$ sorting them out again, not to mention impossible... A while ago I asked the question about buying from places other then small parts, and the whole discussion of "Too Legalistic Vs. Too Cavalier" started. And so I thought ¡§Maybe I will post about how good the rule is to see if anyone is actually supporting it.¡¨ I wanted to see how far could gracious professionalism bring the teams into following rules. And so that¡¦s what I did. I admit I kind of made up the part about selling left over stocks and how that will preserve parts for Small Parts, but the part about how rookies don¡¦t have left over stocks from previous year was truthful. Now that I hear lots of people rejecting this rule update my goal is accomplished. It seems kind of weird that no rookie team responded about this, but I guess that doesn¡¦t really matter. What matters is that so far no one thinks this update is going to help leveling the playing field out there, and that there are no real method of doing such things in this competition. -So what do all these mean? I don¡¦t really know... But I can tell that lots of veteran teams are not happy about this. -Does this say that most teams out there don¡¦t want a leveled playing field because it¡¦s too hard to make that work? Maybe that¡¦s what people think, it certainly sounds like it¡K -Is it too hard to make that work because people don¡¦t want changes in the competition? I cannot judge what people thinks base on their opinion¡K -Is a leveled playing field necessary? After looking at people¡¦s opinion it seems it¡¦s a waste of time trying to do such thing, plus the business world is not a leveled playing field anyway¡K -Do high school students really need to face this unleveled competition as they are trying to learn from all these? Maybe it might be too much to ask them to face such tough competition this early in their lives¡K But then again how many high school students are actually facing the challenge instead of engineers doing that for them? -Is it so wrong of FIRST to make this update? Maybe FIRST did went a bit too far, but maybe not¡K -Are there at least some good reasons behind this update? I think so¡K So I guess you all see this following question coming: How many of you plan to completely follow this rule and are actually going to take out the old stocks and replace them with new ones? |
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