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It's sort of the same, except too often hurdles of teams have been called down to help others (from other places). It's not that the rookies aren't placed near veteran teams, it's just that many of these rookies (and even many of the veterans having robot issues) last year only had partially built robots. By the time the robots were fully functionable, they had to compete for the real deal. Luckily most of the rookie teams are near the machine shop and there are enough veterans near them to help.

And this year, there aren't as many rookies as there were last year--so those rookies will be more likely to get veteran help. (And we only have 4 jet-lagging teams; 3 from the UK and 1 from Alabama--at least so far)