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Re: Correlation between driving skill and practice field availability

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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi View Post
Practice field + Practice bot + Iteration = awesome sauce
Exactly what I wanted to say.

The more you drive the faster you learn what does and doesn't work as well as where the weak points in your design are.

This is why we made 5 improvements between our 1st pass roller claw and the final championship version. We found the weak points in practice and iterated until we had it right.

If you can take care of this learning at practice rather than at the regional you are ahead of the game.
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