Does collaboration do good and evil?

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

Even in an award situation, there are more awards than technical awards. Even if teams collaborate, each team can have its own niche in the collaboration.

They don't all make the same animation. They don't all make the exact same inventor files. They could, but they don't have to. Spirit, Sportsmanship, Safety, Entrepreneuership - though these could be affected by the collaboration, they don't have to be.

I actually do wonder if anyone has ever collaberated on any other aspect of their robotics team?
Collaberating on fundraising actually might make even more sense than collaberating on building a robot. Maybe even a Chairman's award. Team spirit is more a spontaneous thing where teams just decide to have fun with other teams. We witnessed a sportmanship collaberation at GTR when a whole bunch of teams helped team 4 build a spanking new robot in 6 hours from scratch.