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Re: Is powder coating and annodizing worthwhile?
If teams choose to powdercoat, I see no reason why it should ever be frowned upon, regardless of the lack of correlation to robot performance.
Same goes for neat/clean wiring, nice team panels, embroidered team bumpers, etc. etc. If a team has spaghetti wiring, but never fails to lose connection ever in a competition, do we frown upon the cleaner one?
If its pretty and appeases the eye, and teams can afford to do it at no cost to other areas of the build season, so be it. 
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