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First off I like to congrats you guys for your win. Loved your team last year.

I think you got the wrong idea about all of this. Even if you post a photo online of a robot its very hard to copy ideas from them, and most teams don't even try. Only teams that really want to share information do post pictures and explain how things work in order to advance the competition as a whole tend to be copied. As an example we had a team clone MAX 3 last year and it was so cool seeing what they had done with the little information they had (and showing us how we had setting the standard of the ramp bot). Was it a better robot than the original, I say it was not, but they learned something by building it. Remember not all ideas are original. Teams will make similar robots even if they have not seen each other.

Also in the nicest way I can say it as for saying don't post photos. You brought your robot to a regional in the public so the public could see it, if the public post photos you can't say not to (you can ask).