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Originally Posted by waialua359
Time.
Resources, funding, mentorship, partnerships, collaboration, etc. etc. are the main differences between teams that win and teams that lose. Not only from a competition standpoint, but overall learning objectives/experiences.
Teams in general are always working towards a better ____ on the above list, which in turn alleviates time.
Being inefficient with your time is a relative term dependent on how much _________ you have.
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This exactly. Last year, we got the strategy right in week one and built an absolutely beautiful Logomotion scoring mechanism. However, because we finished it after the crate deadline, we didn't get to use it at the tournament. If we had had more mentors, more partnerships, more student experience, or a bigger library of design drafts, we could have performed a lot better than we did (i.e. had more than a drivetrain and a rather sketchy minibot). Practice and strategy can alleviate some of your problems--I credit our very experienced driver with making us as successful a defensive robot as we were--but they can't make up for running out of time. We lost before the season even started, really.
Just goes to show how important the "off" season is.