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Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
Awww you afraid you can't handle the competition this year? What are ya, chicken??  
Oh well, good luck and we'll see you guys like always at Midwest and the Championships
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Well yeah, I am afraid, I'm very afraid. Just look at what cool robots are out there. Look at your robot, what are we supposed to do against that? If you get to the top first we might be doomed!
Why the big secret you ask - as DJ says we are afraid.
Isn't it more exciting to show up at the competition and see some robots for the first time. I do not hold it against anyone who does not show their robot. Imagine if everyone released the picture or videos of their robot all right after shipping. Or, imagine if no one showed their picture at all. It would not be as cool as it has been. I go to the CD forum each day in anticipation of seeing a new robot's picture. I like it better this way a few robots to look at each day. And then at the competition, you get to see the ones you did not yet see. I like it!
I have to give credit to the team that started all this. I think (if my memory does not fail me) it was team 269 from Wisc. who first showed an early picture (even before shipping) of their robot back in 1999. Before then, no one that I know of, showed a picture of their robot on the CD website before a competiton.