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Originally Posted by tickspe15
How does separating the teams level the playing field?
In my experience collaboration makes everybody involved better which is the great thing about all the Ri3D-esque groups. If the goal of F4 is to connect people with the goal of helping the community, and your CADithon's goal is to help people become better at CAD it seems counter to both of these goals to restrict collaboration.
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I do see your point. However, this is a competition. If everyone was to collaborate a lot of the robots would start to look the same and in my opinion less would be learned. By separating people in small groups and restricting collaboration it will create a bunch of different robot designs and strategies which will be fun to reflect on at the end of the event.
Collaboration would also be unfair if not all teams collaborated. All in all I think its just better to keep everyone separate.
However, there are teams of 2 people each. I am sure there will be plenty of collaboration between the 2 designers which is especially cool for the teams who do not already know each other.