Less Interest in Robots in the pits this year?

[spears312]

In doing a lot of scouting for our team I got to ask questions and got asked a few about our robot. While I did notice a lot of people checking out our robot (chrome = attraction) less than half actually asked questions. The questions that were asked, mainly by scouts, were general questions about the performance of the robot, rarely were there any asked about technical aspects or our robot (which were usually directed toward our manipulator).

As for asking questions my self, I often chose to ask general performance questions, not technical. I did ask a few, and I admit I would have liked to asked more technical stuff, but the fast pace I often had to work at didn't allow me the time to do so.

Although I this was my first real year around the pits, I would suppose the lack of questions was based on three factors
1. Similar robot designs, and mostly the same two gear boxes (FIRST and AM's)
2. The usually quick turn around time on matches.
3. On top of the quick turn around time, there were also two more teams to research per match.

I can't say which team number set up is better, but I at least hope next year, that I will find more time to ask questions.