Well I cant help but think that you are a rookie team, judging from your team number I think so.
My advice would be to stop thinking so much of battle bots and more of rugged streamlined scoreing machenes.
basically get the ideas of "weapons" and flippers outta your head and the rest of the ppl on the team.
What would problly be best is if you were to contact a veteran team and go check out their old bots, or find a tape of one of the past competitions.
youll learn about GP tomarrow.
this wasent a flame, more of a gracious sidebar talk.
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