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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
a FIRST event is just about the only place in the world where you can talk about (brag) what you have done on your bot that is really clever, and have anyone else understand what you are talking about
and if people see your bot doing some really cool stuff on the field, and you dont explain to them awesome technology behind it
They will just assume you did something simple, and nobody will ever know what a genius you are.
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I prefer simple things that do amazing things
Yeah it is important to tell, explain, teach, add on, improve, and a whole other list of things but sometimes there is a strategy to picking the right time to do this. Especially when it comes to robots competing in your regional..
Not that you don't want everyone to do great in the regional and work well. You want uniqueness. you want that ability to do things in such a way that no one else is doing. You want other to have uniqueness themselves.
If you give that away to other team you are competing it narrows the range of creative robots and solutions. If someone gave out in the first week a plan for a robot that is amazing and unique, a guranteed winner of sorts, people would copy this design and not make their robot uniquely theirs. The teams that take this design lose because they are not being innovative and creative in their thinking and team that choose to be innovative and different lose out because they can't compete.
Not that this doesn't happen naturally some. Take stack attack for example, people who followed the strategy laided out in the first competition and tore their stacker down to a pusher did better in competition because of how the game worked out. But this made the competition un-innovative and single-tracked for many. Those who braved a innovative path were left as ineffecient and worthless because how the game turned out.
That is why I keep secrets. I want to see what ideas come out of other teams heads. I like it when they ask, an question, and improve what I have thought of or improved, but I hate to make a straight use of something that has been thought of or used before.
I push myself to question why things were done that way? What could be improved? Why can't you do that instead?
And if you ask enough questions and the right questions you will find a better solution to give back again when the time is right.