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Re: Rookie and totally confused

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Originally Posted by Karibou View Post
I'll vouch for this. Knowing the rules inside and out is probably what helped me most during my freshman year: if you're the rules guru, you can help out almost anywhere and people will come to you for help with all aspects of the team. Even if you don't consider yourself mechanically-minded, you'd be surprised on how much you can learn and pick up on just by telling someone they're not allowed to use Globe motors.
This and this again. I found this out last year, being the rules person can help every single subsystem on the robot. Between reading the Manual, Q&A, Team Updates, the Blog, and Chief Delphi, you can be one of the most valuable members of any team.
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