[jijiglobe]

As a New York team my personal experience with RI3D is a little different than what I saw watching other regionals and attending the Buckeye. Quite simply. I don't really like it. A team can build a JVN bot without changing anything and still seed first or at least easily within the top eight. At other regionals you see the higher end of the spectrum being innovative or at least interesting bots. New York has only a handful of particularly strong teams and RI3D helps keep New York teams making competitive bots. At the same time I don't really like how it basically tells most of the teams that you can win just by copying someone else. Some things like the JVN intake are things that most teams would've figured out but el torro and the choo choo are things that most teams wouldn't have done themselves.