On photographs and FVC competitions...

[Jonathan Norris]

I am totally in agreement with Tyler on this one. The nature of FVC makes it such that there is no 'ship date', and with the how quickly you can build one of these robots they have the full right to protect their intellectual property (yes I am making this connection to copyrights). They are in a different situation then my teams were, our season was over after the Toronto tournament, so we decided we would share what we came up with during our FVC 'season'. However, if we were in the same situation as 1114 where our season extends to the championship I would have had second thoughts about sharing our design. Especially if we had put the amount of thought and great engineering design into our robot as 1114 has.

I made the mistake of posting a picture of the finals at the Toronto championship with our robot and 1114's in the background. Tyler had the picture taken down which was my mistake for posting in the first place. At the time i had the same mindset of posting pictures after FRC regionals, not worrying who's robot is in the picture. But FVC is NOT FRC, as i have stated before the time situations are much different and I believe teams should be allowed to protect their intellectual property in FVC. My apologies to the 1114 crew, and good luck keeping that beautiful robot under wraps. I will be very surprised if that robot is not in the finals at the Championship.