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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

How come, specifically?

There's a difference between having one or two baseline competitive robot designs presented for teams who need it, and having a massive group of professional engineers thoroughly tearing through the problem. I think a lot of the complaints people have about the potential negatives are exacerbated in the latter case.

I also found that the effective signal-to-noise ratio seemed to suffer a bit when trying to keep track of a large number of teams.