[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by bobbysq

It is worth pointing out that off-season events show that robot diversity is still maintained even when there is less of a time limit. We don't walk into CowTown and see a bunch of 254 and 118 clones every year. I think teams would still rather put out their own work, even if it's not necessarily the winning option.

That's probably because teams don't want to spend a lot of money and time on a robot for the offseason. It might be a little bit different with a championship on the line.

That being said there's already a bit of design convergence with withholding allowance. See canburgulars last year.