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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
The issue that most vocal detractors of the 3 day builds isn't about teams copy cad files... It's about teams seeing a finished design and copying the whole concept. How many choo-choo's and el-toro's did we see last year? Teams take the finished robots and just say "let's do what they did" instead of experimenting, prototyping and coming up with their own ideas.
Personally, I love this new direction. Focusing on educational materials and prototyping various ideas will hopefully help to increase creativity and diversity in Design, without giving teams an "easy out" of copying a complete robot they know works.
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To be fair, we don't really know the scope of this new Build Blitz, and it could certainly lead to similar things. I initially thought this new version would make detractors of Build Blitz even more angry because we would be seeing multiple mechanisms and ideas prototyped, tested, and built by Vex.
My impression from from Karthik said above (though I'm certainly just speculating here) is that they plan to release game specific designs or ideas, just not a whole robot. Why waste time building a drivetrain when you do more service by building another arm or pick-up mechanism? I think this is a pretty great idea. We'll see later what the full plans are, though I'm currently expecting more than just videos talking about design techniques or documents of educational material.