Collaborations

[Drew]

Originally Posted by thoughtful

First of all this topic has been discussed all around CD.

I dont know about many cloned teams, but i know of the Triplets from Niagara FIRST. They collaborate on they collaborate on everything but the competition(meaning once they are on the field they will all play their hearts out). 1114 in 2005 took two other teams under their wing in order to promote FIRST in a region where they were the lone team. On the field they are a very GP team and matches between triplets are always fun. I dont see anything wrong with this. Although they might gain some advantages, it takes a lot of effort and energy to manage one team let alone work together with three. Many first teams might have to do this in the future in order to cope with lower fund raising money and human capital.

this being the only good thing that i can see with the topic, im not trying to criticize the topic of sister teams because its a great thing to help out a team but why with identical robotics, Why not help them design their own idea instead of guiding them twords an alike competition. It always excites me at competitions when new robots come forth and i like to see their designs, it really shows how critically they were thinking to the point that even a wooden robot can win a competition. Its not exactly how good the robot is its how good you compete with it thats what wins the hearts of people. you try, try, try again. Although i love seeing teams that may be rookies or newer teams up there at the top of the rankings i would feel so much more accomplished if i said We built it, We competed, We conquered. rather than, they built it (helped us with the idea) we competed, we conquered (with their help). it does show great enthusiasm on GP and chairmans awards