[Kevin Sevcik]

Believe me, I would love to have a practice bot, but I've yet to figure out a way for us to build one. Practice bots are nice in theory, but we've spent pretty much all of our $4000 robot budget already, and all of the time we had available to build at our shop. At this point of every season, we're pretty much completely tapped on budget and build time and simply don't have the resources to put a practice bot together. And yes, a practice bot will be just about as expensive as our full robot to be any good. We've got 10 Jags, 6 pneumatic wheels, a CIM-sim, 3 BB P60 transmissions, an entire kit chassis, two 6" performance wheels, poly cord, etc. etc. That adds up to a heck of a lot of money we don't have available for a practice bot.