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Re: rookie team (PLEASE HELP!)

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Originally Posted by lemiant View Post
Search "triplets chiefdelphi" on google or just "triplets" in the Delphi search bar, and you'll find some threads discussing it.
I'm 99.9999% certain that you're reading something into the original post that wasn't there.

I'll save you the trouble of searching: back around 2006, 3 good teams in Canada built 4 identical robots (1 per team and 1 shared practice robot). Legality was not an issue (having been decided in 2004 on a different collaboration). However, some people got all upset about 3 teams building identical robots (and made the normal "mentors built the robots" and the less-normal "they bought their robot kits from some outside source and just had to assemble them" claims).

There was never a claim that one team built the robot for the others. I can't think of a single case where that's been claimed through the 3 major collaborations that I can think of, in fact. It's been claimed that the mentors did all the work (untrue, BTW).
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