Are the three day builds affecting designs?

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Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

They definitely are, but I think the nature of this year's game leads to fewer dramatic departures in the mechanism desing than many previous games. I think the same convergance of design likely would have happened anyway.

I agree with this. I think the over the bumper pickup would have been a pretty common design even without the 3 day build bots, and I wasn't surprised to see some of the 3 day bots go that route. The choo choo is really the only thing I'm seeing more of than I would have expected to see without the 3 day builds.