[Solace]

I think the only thing that is truly worth keeping secret is an innovative autonomous mode. as long as it isn't paired with extensive technical components, an autonomous mode is really the only thing that can be and is changed at the competitions after a team sees another team do it in a more efficient manner. I remember last years UTC New England regional - there were a few teams who completely re-did their autonomous modes the first day after watch the practice rounds of some of the faster robots. sure, i doubt that anyone is going to copy StangPS after they see it, but there are plenty of extremely simple but ingenious tricks to autonomous mode there are easily copied if one has a little advance notice.

As far as mechanincal components are concerned, i see no reason to keep things secret this late into the build season. If a team is still so far behind that they are still at the phase where they can take a design they see on CD and build their robot around at the fifth week, then we probably have the obligation to help them out a bit