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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Many teams still show up with just drives, if just a handful of these teams per event blatantly copy a ri3d without learning anything, but in turn have a great season and are inspired, that's great. Next season they will likely be more motivated to do better, learn more, etc... Missing elims and going 2-7 after being asked to play defense every match certainly isn't likely to inspire them to learn and grow.
Start with copying, move on to innovating.
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This. This is precisely why Ri3D and BuildBlitz can only be seen as a good thing.
Building a robot that can't compete is not very inspiring. Many teams (especially rookies) come with a near-useless robot, are uninspired by their robot's failure in competition, and don't come back.
If a rookie or weak team can have greater success via wholesale copying of a 72-hour robot, and is more inspired to return and continue their learning as a result? I see that as a good thing. Get them inspired to come back. They will eventually learn more and be able to be more successful of their own accord in the future, but we have to keep them around the program long enough for that to happen, and 72 hour robots help to achieve that.