+10000. I can not agree with this any more.
Ri3D/Ri1D are meant to be fun, learning experiences for the teams that built them. Then they produce reveals or show match videos that showcase what they were able to pull of in that short time period. I think spreading the design idea is only a secondary purpose of the reveal, it should mainly be to show off the productivity of 1 or 3 days.
Obviously these robots are not meant to be worlds caliber robots. They were built in 1 or 3 days out of the 365 day season. That’s not even 1% of the time you actually have to tune your competition robots. No robot in 3 days is going to be perfect, and that is certainly not the purpose of them. For example, I’m sure 8059 is not loving how cubes can fall out of their tray. I know that I hate how my rollers from my ri3d turned out. I don’t think this 62 one is also satisfactory with its stacking and intaking speed.
Every rushed robot has its kinks… they are just starting points and learning tools.