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Originally Posted by Chris is me
What reason do you have to believe we had an advantage?
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My reasoning for my belief that beta teams have an advantage is based on 'First hand experiance' vs. '3rd hand experiance'.
How many times have you tried to repeat an experiance to someone, only to end up saying "you had to be there". This is part of human nature and the fact that our systems for communication (language, etc) are flawed by our own paradiems (sp?).
Many things that I do naturally (and think nothing of it), others may never do (or conceive of doing). Because of this I may not transmit that information acccurately, properly, or even at all. However, if the others had 'hands on' training then they might have picked up on those small details.
Let me ask you a couple of question:
How many beta teams screwed up setting up the cRIO (downloading, etc) when they got theirs for competition? Probably none since they already had done it previously and knew where the mistakes were.
How many rookie teams screwed up setting up their cRIO (downloading, etcc) when they got theirs? If you read the threads here on CD, there were quite a few ... and those were the ones that knew about CD.