04-04-2011, 15:07
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,718
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Re: Week 5 OPR
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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56
1503 is an exception and not the rule. Give there robot to any other driver and it would be another decent but not great robot. Nick makes that robot excellent so saying simplicity is the secret to success is selling his skill a bit short. I stick by our teams, and the majority of successful teams decisions in that floor loading is necessary to be competitive at champs.
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On the contrary, if it takes you a week less time to build a 1503 robot, you have that much longer to train your driver. You won't be Nick Lawrence, but if I could trade floor loading for a week of practice with 2791's robot, I would get rid of floor loading.
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