Coopertition is now an integral part of the regional competitions. I think the concept could really be extremely useful during the design and build season as well. Let me explain. How much time do you spend once the game is announced researching 'how to do' things on the internet? Internet searches like 'how to' pick up game elements, what kind of arms work well for this challenge? Here's an example of what I found on youtube looking for a gripper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKOI_lVDPpw So what if there were threads on CD for the various components of the robot we're all going to build where we could share videos and other information we find surfing the net. That way we'd have a collective resource to germinate a lot of promising possibilities without each of us having to start this quest from scratch. This virtual coopertition would be really useful to the design process. What do you think?