[KenWittlief]

I agree that a flaw or weakness in a design of a super collaboration would mean a weakness in all ten teams on the field

but I think the weaknesses that show up on the field are largely due to the fact the we have a limited amount of time and resources, and we have to design a whole robot in 6 weeks

so by having a ten team design alliance, each team only has to build one tenth of the robot - they will have plenty of time to perfect it in 6 weeks

it would be like playing against a team that has 300 students and 30 mentors, who are entering 10 robots into the contest, instead of playing against 10 individual teams with 30 students and 3 mentors each.

I dont like those odds. If we are on the opposite side of the field, It would feel like you are going against a team that had 330 members and $300,000 in funding.