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Originally Posted by Karthik
Yes we are competing against each other. ... Yes the teams collaborate during the season, but on the field it is a direct competition and nothing else...
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FIRST is an engineering design contest / competition - who can come up with the best engineering solution to the problem that has been presented to solve: a machine that can play a game on the field.
Teams average 120 hours designing and building their machine during the six week build period, about 20 hours in the pits at each regional modifying, testing and maintaining their machine, and about 20 to 30 minutes on the field actually playing the game. That comes out to 9,600 minutes 'off the field' and 30 minutes 'on the field'.
If you collaborate with another team you spend less than 1% of your time 'competing' against that team, 99% of your time collaborating with that team, and 100% of your time competing against all the other FIRST teams.