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Originally Posted by Jeffy

I've very much enjoyed watching this bot play. Saw it on Friday morning via webcast of Orlando and knew there was a great future for this bot.

While sometimes a team "just gets it right" for a year, usually a team's rapid growth of success in a year is due to a few small changes.
As there are always threads along the lines of "what makes a great team great", mind sharing what made your team jump in competitiveness from a good team to a multi-banner team?

For our team this hasnt been just an overnight leap into the limelight. The past 2 years we have had robots that were blue banner quality. In 2010 we were ranked 2nd at Florida, 1st at Colorado, and 4th on Newton; 2011 we had the 2nd highest OPR at Florida w/o even having a working minibot. The key to us doing so well this year is the fact that we built a robot that does every part of the game amazingly well. We usually build robots that do 80% amazingly well and just say we can outscore that other 20%, but this year we said we needed to do 100% amazingly. The experience of having a 4 year base driver is also an intangible that just cant be easily push aside either.