Team Update #1

[BJC]

Originally Posted by IndySam

I would agree if there were more than a handful of FTC teams around here.

Wouldn't it have been greater to have the 50 or more Vex teams in this area inspired and in demand?

I think FIRST needs to find a dose of the gracious part of GP 'cause they seem to have forgotten.

Even if a bunch of Vex teams did make super fast mini bots, thats only about 1/4 of the race. The real challenge is making one that can go on every sort of robot. They would need to design not only a minibot, not only a deployment system, but figure out a way to attach it to many different robots in a variety of ways. Basically, there is no way a Vex team built mini-bot will ever outpreform a decent FRC team's specific-to-them one. Vex teams will have to trade a lot of speed in deployment for a universally attaching Minibot and deployer. As long as the FRC team's mini bot isn't terribly slow it'll pretty much win because they will be able to make it deploy faster.