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Junkyard Wars is a great show and there should be more of it. But I think everyone should consider what a younger version of the show would be like. Contestants on the show typically have years and years of engineering experience. They have knowledge that you can only gain by working in the field. To make the challenges possible, they would have to be easier. Also they would need more time. If the teams were allowed to have more people, the costs for the teams to travel back and forth for competition would be high and since sponsors cannot display their logos on the participants, they would probably be less inclined to donate. Junkyard Wars is exciting because in just 10 hours the teams manage to build incredible machines. I don't think it could be done by anyone w/o a ton of experience.
Many high school teams come up with great robots, but they have the help of many experts. If its going to take a few experts to help the kids, and therefore the experts are doing most to all of the work.... why are the kids there?
Anyway, just a thought, I might still watch it with kids if it was still challenging.
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