In hiding

[Elgin Clock]

Last year we had a secret system that I hinted at a lot and then finally let the secret out with the approval of my team after we shipped our robot. This year I have no idea what the team wants but since I do not have any pics of this year's robot as of now I guess I can't just post a pic.

Plus, every year I have been with my team the final design has changed so much from 1st idea to the last competition that it's really hard to accurately post a discussion and or picture of what our robot can do and looks like - though I have attempted to do so in the past.

I found the quote from GilaHumanPlayer that states "3. By trying to hide your robot you are trying to make your robot more ominous, but the fact is that you come off as thinking that you are better than everyone else." to be very disturbing.

There are an infinite amount of reasons that can make a team not post their pics. They could be not happy with the way it looks and are waiting to get that perfect photo, they could be hiding something to be unveiled and totally amaze someone, or this year maybe, just maybe, a team has actually read the team updates and are waiting for word as to what we can actually build after the ship date (if anything at all) and honestly, maybe "borrow" an idea from another team that has posted their picture prematurely.

While we are on this topic, would you as a team think of letting another team drop by and see what you are doing during the six weeks or would you be so scared to lose that vital design information that you would not let any other team member and or team look at it until the day of competition???