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Originally Posted by waialua359
I would respectfully disagree.
Looking at a prototype video/pictures of another programs/Ri3D robot isnt necessarily easy to duplicate.
The game last year had a relatively easy task with no end game vs. other years. With all of the support resources available last year, there were still many teams who couldnt play the game effectively.
I think the resources provided by veteran FRC members and FRC suppliers creating fully functional robots was a step in the right direction.
The direction that Build Blitz is moving towards is still fine by me though. A happy medium for everyone.
Lets hope that it continues to translate to better overall robot performances on the field.
The thing that frustrates me the most from a competition perspective, isnt necessarily who I am up against, but instead, having partners that cannot effectively contribute during a match.
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I think vexpro highlighting how you can build individual robot "appendages" using their pre-fab is good enough to solve this.
For instance. One of the bigger issues last year wasn't people copying the El Toro intake - but that they didnt know the correct composition and tuning. I imagine Vex would have shown how to build that with pretty much the exact components that they pre-fab and sell so that if a team wanted to just buy a "lego kit" intake they could have. This will increase competitiveness across the board.
I also see it as less restricting on creativity. If vex were to provide 15 different components, then teams would have to do their own cost-benefit analysis of components to get different combinations of robots - vs doing a cost-benefit on the robot from Ri3d they should copy.