pic: REX (Team 4334 - Alberta Tech Alliance)

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I may be biased when saying this, but ATA was easily my favourite team this year. Thank you for making our Rookie year amazing!! Glad to have shared our first eliminations with a fellow Canadian rookie team, as well as our alliance captain 2852!

Now i feel like i should address that it is a big deal that ATA is a rookie team. I mean, 4334's Rookie All-Star award became their initial step towards success at Archimedes and eventually admission into IRI. This made them really the only support bot to advance from our Regional, as it was from their success as a Rookie team.

I feel that a huge growth in support bots would be unhealthy for FRC. I think that success with supports are limited, as the only way to really be successful as a support is to be freakin' amazing!! *cough* REX *cough*

Wouldn't a mediocre support just be a mediocre shooter, without the ability to shoot? So is this design plan really the obvious choice? Or is it maybe a choice that only rookie teams should consider?