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Originally Posted by Phalanx

I saw a great number of "copycat" machines last season. Where's the creativity and thinking outside the box in that?

Yes you may have seen allot of copy cats, but were they all identical replicas? No... The Ri3D design was one of a few that I could think of to throw a Frisbee with a stable flight path, or load effectively from the feeder stations. I know my team used some design concepts in our design but we made changes unique to us and only us. I don't see Ri3D style marathons as bad for the FRC community, I see it as an improvement of overall game play.

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Teams that know how to pull off creative still did it anyway, and teams that didn't had a starting point to work off of. I really just don't understand how anyone could think RI3D made 2013 worse.

I agree with this.