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Originally Posted by Mr. Van
I see that many are opposed to teams making an agreement during competition that is something like "you take the top row, we'll take the bottom row - no spoilers and we'll compete over the middle row."
Is this substantially different from teams making an agreement during the building season that says "You design and fabricate a drive system and we'll design and fabricate a scoring arm and we'll put 'em together then compete at events allowing the best team to win"?
-Mr. Van
Coach, 599
The RoboDox
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I'm inclined to say yes, there is a difference. Things can be learned by collaborating with another team, particularly a team not near you as with Division by Chickens or the various 254 collaborations (which I never quite realized were spaced that far apart--when you're three thousand miles away, everything is close), or when you have to get three teams all to agree to a general direction or apply a tweak one's discovered to all three. I'd love to see what can be learned by these sorts of deals.