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Originally Posted by Eric Bareiss
Sharing the build load: Both teams are still going to spend all six weeks building, it's not like they finished early. They spent just as much time building as everyone else.
Before you can say that they didn't work as hard or they cheated, I say try it, walk a mile in their shoes. Maybe you'll change your mind. I know I'm looking forward to trying this next year.
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I have thought about this topic all day and gone back and forth on it. But in the end, my gut tells me that collaboration to this extent is bad.
This first statement is the one thing that I dislike about this collaboration. I think that strategy discussion, and sharing of discussion between teams is a great thing, especially between a veteran and a younger team. But the fact is, that these two teams each had about 4 weeks to design and build 1/2 of a robot. If you had 4 weeks to build just a drivetrain, or just an arm, and could focus all of your resources on that, imagine what many teams could accomplish. That would be a tremendous advantage. Collaboration is good, and does build communication skills, and an appreciation for a corporate atmosphere, but to this extent, I think it is against what we are trying to do.