Calling for everbody to sign a petition to FIRST

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Posted by Bill Beatty at 04/27/2001 12:42 AM EST


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In Reply to: Calling for everbody to sign a petition to FIRST
Posted by Kyle Fenton on 04/25/2001 10:28 PM EST:



Sorry Kyle, I can't agree even a little bit with your push to return to wheel to wheel competition. In the six years of our involvement in FIRST, this competition was, by far, the most exciting, electrifying of them all at the three events we were in. There were more folks watching and cheering at the final matches then there have been for a number of years. I can't imagine a design engineer or design team that can create a high capability, high scoring robot would ever want a slug of a do nothing robot to block, pound, or in any way restrict it's ability to perform. Could it be, that in actuality, the folks who are pushing for head to head and defensive competition are really fearful of putting their design and construction ability on the line? Maybe the ones that are saying they want competition really do not want to try and compete. Interesting.......