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For Blizzard(#188), brainstorming is always a team effort.
Usually, there is no meeting on the day of the Kickoff for us. That's a day for everyone to stay home, absorb the rules, and kick around individual ideas.
On Sunday (or Monday), our main brainstorming session is held where all our team members meet to share ideas. We first go over the basic rules of the game to clarify any questions, uncertainties or misunderstanding. Then the team breaks into small groups to discuss different ideas for what our robot should do and how it should do it. Each member is given a few sheets of paper to sketch out his or her ideas and present them to the group.
During the next few days, team leaders meet to go over each idea presented and to extract the best of these ideas. These are then re-presented to the team and usually, a general vote is taken to see which of these are the most popular. Overall, our brainstorming lasts approximately a week. Although this may be a big chunk of time to spend on brainstorming, we find it is better than starting on an idea thinking it's good and then finding out that there's something wrong or there's something better.
Anthony.
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