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Originally Posted by Karthik
The reason 1503 is so successful this year is definitely the simplicity.
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Very true. I'd attribute the largest part of our success to the simplicity of the design allowing us to finish both robots before ship. This allowed us to fully degremlify the competition robot (a major problem for us in past years) pre-ship, and gave our programmers the time to write an autonomous mode that has yet to miss scoring an ubertube in a competition match. Plus, the simplicity of the design has necessitated a minimum of maintenance, yielding very low downtime both at competition and our practice field. From time to time, people on the team continue to ask themselves, "what if we had just added this simple mechanism to enable floor pickup?", but I'd venture to say that anything other than what we did would have resulted in less success overall.
Now, would you all please stop feeding Nick's ego? I'm the one who has to work with him (and Andrew and Jay, our awesome operator and human player) on the field, and as it stands I'm not sure his head will fit on the bus to St. Louis...
