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Originally Posted by Pat Major
If the Martians put their students into two groups and separated them for brainstorming and design, each group would have about 19 students. Which will produce more ideas and inspiration 19 students in a group or 38?
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I have to say two groups are better than one. You will have two designs created instead of one, and therefore two independant design paths will be followed.
Most likely one group of 19 will end up with a better design than the other, but it will be 'their' design - and thats the basis of what we are trying to do.
As Ive already said, collaboration is great if its used the right way - allowing separate teams to focus on the subsystems they have the best resources for. Creating a super team, where they all work together on everything - how is that any different from one large team building two robots, and paying the registration fees for both - and basically becoming a multi-robot single team?
Isnt that what they do in bicycle racing and some auto races? One sponsor will have several entries in a competition, and they play as a team?