[Cory]

Originally Posted by Mr. Van

To me, this brings up the question of awards. Many awards are given for specific design features (Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology", GM Industrial Design, Rockwell Automation Innovation in Control, Motorola Quality, etc.). How are Judges to evaluate teams that have designed and developed part of a robot (say a drive train) in 6 weeks (and field a complete 'bot via collaboration) with a team who have designed and fabricated a complete robot by themselves?-Mr. Van

Not all collaborations work with team X building the base and subsystem 1 and team Y building subsystem 2. It's very plausible that collaborating teams both worked on all parts of the robot.