What are the strengths of competitions?
• Competitions can attract people to work on a problem. a. Many of the competitions listed above started small and grew rapidly as folks thought of ways they though they could do better. For instance, RoboCup has attracted hundreds of researches to the area of getting robots to collaborate to solve problems. • Competitions can motivate people to work hard. • Competitions can lead to getting better and better performance. • Competitions can lead to recognition of new ideas.
