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Originally Posted by Anupam Goli
Only Team Indiana doesn't release their CAD files.
2 years ago, Vex had Built Blitz, which had teams of some of the most brilliant minds in FIRST designing and building robots in 3 days for the 2014 game. There was a thread raising a stink about it here. The topic isn't new, but the MCC isn't as competitive as the Team JVN robot was in 2014(No offense to RC or any of the WCP team that worked on the MCC bot  ). I don't understand why people will continue to say that ideas like WCP's MCC bot and Ri3D are going "too far". Being able to see cool ideas work early in the season is great for drawing inspiration from and building on top of. Sometimes we need to give our kids an idea of what's been done before so they can think beyond and better. |
The Ri3D teams can each obviously choose their own rules, but I've amended my comment to refer to what I heard:
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Originally Posted by George Nishimura
EDIT: Found it. So what I heard was "full CAD model". Video |
For reference, I'm not saying WCP nor Ri3D are going "too far". I perceived that there was a difference in intent between WCP and Ri3D:
- Ri3D - to inspire prototyping, designing, strategizing
- WCP - to provide a (base) off-the-shelf robot solution
That may be my misinterpretation, but again, I don't personally see anything wrong with either intent.
EDIT: according to WCP, the MCC is more like Ri3D, intended to show how to effectively use their products.