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Originally Posted by Katie Reynolds
At the Milwaukee regional, I was curious about these two teams, as 70 was a pretty low number and I'd never heard of the "More Martians" before. So I asked a mentor for the teams about it and he filled me in. Bottom line: the Martians (494) did a pretty cool thing for a fellow team at their high school that was going under.
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Actually, wasn't it that the mentors and students felt that the team got too big to accomplish their goals and inspire students the way they wanted to so they split into two teams? In order to prevent confusion as a "rookie" (since it is the same school/corporation sponsorship) they were given a low number that is no longer used.
As for how they did it, what I understood was that they had a single common design, but built the robot totally separately as two separate team. At least, this is what the lady in the pit for Team 70 told me in Cleveland.