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Re: [moderated] Collaboration

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Originally Posted by dlavery
...Because they have just made my job 50% easier!

...Their solutions to the game are always so good, and so creative, that we have to spend a very great amount of time trying to figure out how to defeat them should we ever oppose them in a match ...
... if we can figure out how to beat one of them, then we know how to beat the other. We get twice the benefit for half the work!
... A concern was expressed earlier in the thread about what would happen if five or ten teams all worked together to build identical machines. ...they would also have ten copies of the same weaknesses. If we can find it, we have just figured out how to defeat ten teams all at once.
Wow ... I guess I never really thought about it from that point of view - Thanks, Dave! I feel enlightened.

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
That said, I was against it initially, because I couldn't see how it was legal within the rules given to us at the beginning of the competition. However, once again, FIRST has amazed me because they were able to find a happy medium. They have an interpretation which allows 254 and 60 to compete, and also uphold the rules.
When I first heard about the collaboration of 60 and 254, I felt the same way. After the ruling stating the legality of the collaboration of two teams, I'm not totally for or against the idea of this type of collaboration. If that's what teams want to do, and they feel it's the best way to learn, teach and be inspired, go for it! That's what this is all about, anyway! Thinking about it, it takes the 'real world' side of FIRST to a whole new level - communicating between two cities is hard, imagine how hard it is to communicate between two states! Congrats to the teams that are able to do this, and do it well.

That said, I don't think I would personally want my team to participate in this sort of collaboration with another team. Why? *shrug* I like trying to build a new, innovative, robot that performs the same tasks as everyone else's in a different way than others. Seeing my robot on the field compete with or against its twin would be ... different. I don't think I would care for that.

But that's me and just me. Like I said before, if teams want to go ahead and do it, I have no problem with it.

Good luck to everyone this season!

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Originally Posted by dlavery
** note: a few times in past years, our response strategy has been to build a machine that falls apart before we can ever compete against these guys, and we therefore avoid the entire issue altogether - perhaps not the brightest strategy, but hey, it works for us!
Haha, very nice. *makes a mental note - "team 116 will fall apart if they feel the competition is as tough as 60 & 254
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