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Re: Warning Re. Teams Giving their own information
Posted by ChrisH at 1/30/2001 12:03 PM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach 'Bots, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA JPL, J & F Machine, Raytheon, et al.


In Reply to: Warning Re. Teams Giving their own information
Posted by Nate Smith on 1/29/2001 5:42 PM EST:



I don't see any problem with having a data base of what teams CLAIM they can do and another set of data for what they ACTUALLY do. Indeed, the most valuable information about them might be the difference between the two sets of data.

We have to start somewhere and team provided data is a good place to do so. Is verification needed, absolutely. But it's a little hard to verify performance right now since the robots are still taking shape.

Giving teams the ability to update their "published" data as time goes on is also very important. I can see a team publishing honest results of testing and then finding very diferent results in actual competition. Such a team that honestly publishes and updates the different results, especially if they have to revise performance downward, has my respect.

Personally I'd rather work with a reliable partner who can and will do what they say than an unreliable partner who is very capable but does their own thing.

To quote our veteran driver "The thing that scares me about this years competition is that I've always had more trouble dealing with our partners than our opponents"

Chris Husmann, PE
Team 330 the Beach'Bots


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