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Originally Posted by iCurtis
1. Given the choice, would you watch a horse race, or a tortoise race? Sure, there might be interesting tortoise racing dynamics, but the horse race has the same thrills at a much faster pace -- which is why it is more exciting.
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Given the choice would you watch a horse race or a bullet race? Horse races (and turtle races) are interesting because you can see the competition. Races between bullets (or launched minibots), come down to trusting the electronic scoring mechanisms to tell you what happened in a race too fast to watch.
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Originally Posted by Jared341
We'll see how wide the variety of minibots is once a week of regionals has come and gone and whatever design ends up performing best is duplicated by dozens to hundreds of savvy teams.
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I don't think this will happen. There have been lots of opportunities for savvy teams to copy a winning design in the past, and it hasn't happened often. Also, it is deceptively difficult to copy a good design without fully understanding it. The best minibots will have lots of custom parts including ultra-light weight custom gears and will be difficult to copy.
Plus if everyone copies a week one design, an innovative week two team will steal the show with a better design.