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Originally Posted by s_forbes
It'd be more interesting if teams posted stuff they were trying during the design phase; you'd get much better feedback and optimize the design faster. I've seen a few cases where designs we were working on were posted on CD and people jumped on them to find potential issues; that helped us build a better robot.
I really can't see any negatives to posting design concepts at this point in the season. Think on this: If the Cheesy Poofs posted a complete render of their robot design right now, would you honestly scrap your current design after 5 weeks of work and start over with this new info?
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Thanks for keeping up this fight, I've been championing this idea for while now and it hasn't gained much traction. However to your 2nd point, I get why some teams don't post, however a far greater number of teams should post since the benefits to them out weight the risks. Cheeeh Poofs don't need feedback from the community to ensure solid designs, they push the envolope so far that only a handful of people could help them in most cases and there are other teams like that (the ones everyone can named and are surprised when they don't win their division). For all other teams I don't see how posting doesn't help them and others. I don't get the idea of not wanting to post unfinished designs, they show the process and teams can learn from it.