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Re: When to make practice bots

This is our first year building a practice bot and we did it after are final robot was mostly finished for a few reasons. One if for some reason we couldn't build two robots we had our competition robot complete. Two we knew that there would be certain parts that we would have to take off the competition robot to make the practice robot complete, that meant we would only need to do the parts swap twice once on bag day and once at the beginning of our first competition.

Our build schedule allowed us to build our first robot in under 4 weeks, this left plenty of time to build the practice robot and get it nearly ready by Bag Day.

We were also able to practice with the real robot for as long as possible which was nice since are practice robot isn't identical because we don't have any advanced machining processes.
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