Midfield Collisions

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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

I think that is really wishful thinking. Last year, my team was almost always the most friendly and willing to interact out of all the teams we played with. There were numerous oppurtunities where we could have benefitted (and vice versa) from people from other teams helping with software, yet very little happened. One programmer from another team did help out a bit, but the code he gave us was mostly useless because we decided it was too risky to try it without testing it.

Sure teams can lend each other spare parts and give each other advice, but I think its pretty unlikely that you will see many teams reporgramming other teams bots in the 1/2 hour or so that they have to prepare for matches.

I think it's possible, but very hard indeed. The problem comes with having time to test it.