[Travis Covington]

We're happy to share our design philosophy, design decisions, and the processes we used to get to our current solution. We do hesitate, however, to post detailed pictures and designs of things during the current season to both ensure learning takes place, but also to maintain a competitive advantage. Ask any team and they'll tell you we're the first to explain all about our robot design and any details about it.

The bottom-line is that we're happy to give you the tools you need to build a successful mini-bot, but prefer doing so in a way that further enables you later. We must also not forget that this is a competition. The unfortunate thing about this year is that the simplest mini-bots will be the most successful (and the easiest to copy). When a significant majority of some of the early regionals could have been won with a single first place mini-bot, their importance cannot be over emphasized. Copying, sharing, posting pictures or detailed CAD of other teams robots without their consent is neither inspiring nor should it be considered GP.

While our issues here are not really that big of a deal, the benefits and takeaways from this thread could have been achieved through a different and more discrete means.