[davidthefat]

Our robot was a box with wheels on it. And one attachment to lower the bridge. Do you know why our robot was like that? In my opinion, it was because we never built something robot related during the offseason. The first 3 weeks of the build season was focused on educating 80% of the team. We did terrible in my book. Others on my team will disagree with my opinion, but we failed this year. We only achieved 50% of our goals, and the goals were very simple: to balance and pass balls to the other side. We only balanced. Last year, we were a bit more lucky because we had a veteran welder/mechanic join our team (He was a Senior, so he graduated).

We never maxed out our budget. Of course, 589 is not considered a powerhouse. We never were. It was because we rarely do offseason activities other than fundraising and outreach. We are a 12 year team for pete's sake, we need to step things up.