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Originally Posted by ttldomination
Agreed. It's all about learning and I have learned a lot by watching other robots and figuring out how they work, but it hinders learning and frustrates the team when you build a robot, compete, then find that someone has taken your design.
Honestly, I don't think people actually *learned* by seeing 546's design. They went OH, nice idea, I think i'll take that.
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Yeah, it stinks when that happens, but there's a huge difference between copying someone's design and improving upon it.
Case in point: Last year, we did a fairly good job at the San Diego FTC tournament and in the process went head-to-head with another purely defensive bot. When we faced that team again in Las Vegas, they had taken elements of our design and used them to redesign their robot into a goal-trapping beast. They ended up beating us in the final match.
Was my team mad or frustrated? No. We thought it was an honor that someone had thought our design and strategy, so different from most of the other robots, was worth copying and improving on.