Are you a traitor?

[Andrew Rosselet]

Originally Posted by Vin211

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I know this team doesn't give a warm welcome to their Alumni!
The real question is.....Does yours?

What!? Our team seems quite the opposite...some evenings when we are building, the number of mentors& allumni equals the number of active students...
I would think most teams would warmly welcome their experienced graduates

[Jones571]

isnt every team defensive of there ideas during design time

[Vin211]

Originally Posted by Jones571

isnt every team defensive of there ideas during design time

It all depends. I would say yes teams would be defensive of their designs. But I wasn't there to steal designs, I wouldn't know what to do with them. I'm not really apart of a team anymore.

The truth is, I was there to drop off something to an engineer on the team.

I even offered to show the certain team a scouting program I've been working on using Palm Pilot technology. Lol One work.....wireless!

But from what I saw, it only looked like this team was building a playing field and perhaps a side panel. I'm not that mechanically inclined.

[Stormhammer]

as a 2nd year team, yea, I am defensinve on the design, but I will give out little tips and tidbits to it, just to edge on people to inspire them to be more creative and see what they can do. I mean this year the rules are a little bit more lenient

[Marygrace]

Originally Posted by Jones571

isnt every team defensive of there ideas during design time

For us, it depends on whos listening. We usually build the whole field and invite SoCal teams to come and test their robot, with them we discuss our design, we compare and contrast. If people asked, i dont think we would have a problem sharing, so our team isn't defensive.

[KenWittlief]

if you end up helping another team during the design phase, there are 3 possible outcomes

1. you will play against them, and they will have an advantage over you

2. you will never be in the same match together, in which case you have helped someone out and made a friendship that will last for years

3. they will be your alliance partner in a match, in which case you have helped an alliance

since only one of the 3 possible outcomes have a potential negative impact, I will bet on the 2 out of 3 odds of ending up with a positive outcome, and say, "anyone who wants to know what our team is doing, building, planning or if there is any other way we can possibly help your team - please feel more than welcome to email, phone, stop by....

bring your whole team, bring you cameras, bring your little brother if you want to! :c)

[HolyMasamune]

even if they do have an advantage over you, you still get the warm fuzzy feeling of helping another team out and allowing them to succeed

[Blacknight]

Gracious professionalism?
so what if they kno what your bot does? Does it really matter? You might be paired w/ them or you might go aginst them. Or either might not happen at all. I don't c the prob only if a team is stealing signature ideas which it unethical.

[Jones571]

i agree we also have a mentor team who we share ideas and use there field to practice. but about the palm pilot program i would love to here about it....