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Originally Posted by Basel A
The question of how Coopertition plays into all this is an interesting one. Copying is one thing, but in borrowing a minibot you don't even get the experience of building it, and an even lesser admiration. However, FRC is encouraging this behaviour. Perhaps when one team had no minibot at all, this is the slightest bit understandable, but in cases I've seen, a borrowed minibot has simply replaced another, and a team has undermined its own work to seek greater success.
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In our team's case, we had an average minibot, a great deployment and our alliance captains team decided to replace our average minibot with their faster minibot during Saturday lunch time-- the net result is that our minibot was able to beat theirs up the pole (due to deployment differences -- actually our average one beat theirs as well, when we had to revert back to it later in elims) I didn't see that as undermining our own work, because at that point, we were pursuing the best opportunity to win the competition (which we ALMOST did.)
John Vriezen
Team 2530 "Inconceivable"
Mentor, Drive Coach, Inspector