Re: The ultimate game breaker bot.
Similar to an old Ghostbusters quote about what answer you should always give when asked if you're a god. Whenever you have a "god-bot" you should keep the design to yourself until after ship date, while still building said "god-bot" for yourself. That way you don't give away your secret weapon.
Or in this case, the secret weapon that a few other teams had thought about and were planning on using themselves! Now this team has to do some different brainstorming on how we'll differentiate ourselves now that so many teams that read Delphi might look like us. We thought we were gonna be cool to be the only bot climbing the tower right off the bat, or at least one of the few who had thought outside the kicking box. Now the cat's out of the bag.
We have put a few carefully worded questions into Q&A on what is considered carrying in regards to structures on top of the robot, but it wasn't enough to give away a design approach. Coopertition is good and all, but I really like seeing the crazy, yet effective ideas that come from the quieter camps each year, and was hoping to join their ranks with a sneaky bot this year. Now we need to rethink how we are gonna be different so back to the drawing board.
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