[JesseK]

This is my 9th season. I agree that the combination of game mechanics and robot constraints have made this game a designer's nightmare.

It has kept me up until 11pm and woke me at 6am most weekdays. I spent 24 hours in 3 days just coming up with a side & top profile sketch of the inner workings of our bot. The student CAD'ing the disc launcher isn't losing sleep, but is definitely stressed given the amount of work we're putting into CAD this year. Packing it into a smaller frame and (oh yea) under 27.5" is even worse.

Yet we're through the hard part now. Keep pushing, you'll find the same!