Team 2607 makin' then shot

[dellagd]

http://youtu.be/P_-uB_0vXxY

[MrForbes]

Why not show all of it? We posted video of ours weeks ago...

[dellagd]

Well, I guess I didn't want to show our turret design right now. We need any edge we can get!

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by dellagd

Well, I guess I didn't want to show our turret design right now. We need any edge we can get!

Teams have 10 days to finish, if they don't have a turret designed/built by now they aren't going to have one.

Keeping your designs "secret" is totally your teams choice, but I personally don't see why so many teams are so scared to show what they have. If you want to be the best you have to beat the best and if you think you have the best why not share it or show it off and be proud of it. Most teams aren't going to drastically change their idea because a team shows what they've got. Look at 179 you think that teams dropped what they were doing and decided to build a 179 type bot because they showed it could be done? Sure a team or 2 might have but the majority of people saw it as an inspiration for following years to think outside the box and try something different.

In your video even if you hadn't blurred out your robot from the distance you shot the video from people wouldn't be able to see that much detail in what your turret.

That being said, good luck this year.

[dellagd]

Keeping your designs "secret" is totally your teams choice

Thankyou

[EricLeifermann]

I don't know why you're thanking me. Either you are choosing to have selective reading or you didn't read my whole post. I say it is your teams choice but I also say I don't understand it(which is nicely saying I don't agree with it). If you feel that keeping your robot "secret" is giving you an "edge" then you are wrong.

What gives teams an edge is hard work, working within your teams means, good scouting, great robot driving, and an excellent chemistry between the drive team.

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by EricLeifermann

If you feel that keeping your robot "secret" is giving you an "edge" then you are wrong.

What gives teams an edge is hard work, working within your teams means, good scouting, great robot driving, and an excellent chemistry between the drive team.

I completely agree, and we are putting in hard work. I didnt know that this would offend people by bluring out part of a video

[MrForbes]

I'm not offended, just curious. We learned long ago that showing our designs doesn't hurt us, and it can help other teams. Also if we have an idea that we think is pretty good, and we let folks look at it, they might let us know about problems we didn't anticipate....

[EricLeifermann]

I'm not offended either. I wasn't trying to say that your team or any team for that matter doesn't work hard, I was saying that hard work is just part of the equation that gives team an "edge' as you put it.

[dellagd]

Oh. Well, uh, we know!

Also, I've seen other teams do the same in their video, so I guess I was going off of my past see-ings. From now on I'll be sure not to do so, I guess...

[dellagd]

Um, now that were past that...

Do you guys think that it has pretty good range? What is the range of your shooter?