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Unread 29-02-2004, 16:23
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Re: [moderated] Collaboration

There are some differences between two teams making the same robot and one merged team.

Two teams get twice the number of parts - of course, you can't have more than x of a certain part anyway. But, two teams also receive twice the chance of winning a regional. If 8 teams, for example, collaborate and make the same robot, they have a chance of being the top 8 seeded teams also. However, one super-bot of 8 teams merged into one can only be seeded 1st place, not 1st through 8th.

I agree with Andrew. It is far better to fully allow collaboration than fully prohibit collabortation. Gracious professionalism needs collaboration to work. FIRST made the right decision.