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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Here is the nub of my concern: What would people think of all 16 Delphi teams having the machine that the Chief Delphi Team is making this year (or the Delphi Knights, or the TechnoKats, or whatever)?
CEO's love to have winning teams. We all (including CEO's) know that there is a huge luck factor in winning the Championship. Having 16 chances to win is better than having just one.
I worry that the pressure to win may increase if this type of collaboration becomes more common -- up to this point, we have always been able to say that TOO close of coordination was out of the bounds of fairness... ...but perhaps not.
Beyond this, I am not sure that it is good for FIRST to have 16 Chief Delphi robots out in the wild ;-)
It could be a strange new world we are entering.
Joe J.
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1. Do you think you could build 16 identical robots with 16 teams?
2. This collaboration has everything to do with winning. We will have won before the first regional begins by learning how to work together in a long distance partnership by paving the way for teams to think out side the box, sharing information to help everyone.
Winning a Regional or the National Championship is nice but it doesn’t compare to working as a team to develop a new process to build a better product.
How many teams are willing to share all of there current years ideas to include drawings pictures discussion anything? Team 60 and 254 will and do.
3. Do you think it is easier for two teams to build the same robot or each building their own? The answer is it is much harder to build identical robots.
You have to take your ego and put it on the shelf. You have to listen more than you talk. You must be willing to compromise, only if you use the best of everyone’s ideas will the project be a success. In our case we had to deal with shipping and a lag in getting the parts you needed. There are many other obstacles to over come as well.
Will we have a better product in the end? We hope so.
Have our teams learned some valuable real life lessons? Absolutely!