[SPurekar]

Team 226 formed a collaboration with two other teams because they didn’t have funding or mentors to build their own robots and we wanted to help them out. We decided that it wasn’t feasable for our engineers to build three separate robots, and never considered leaving the other teams to cope for themselves without mentors, so we built three identical bots. I’m guessing other teams were in similar situations and had a lack of resources, so they had to pool together.