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Originally Posted by sanddrag
This is my 12th year in FIRST Robotics, and I'd thought the build had generally become somewhat routine, the games somewhat predicable, and I'd just about seen it all. But now in the third week of build season, I'm finding this very difficult. Even with the ability to rapidly make parts in-house and over a decade of experience of doing this, I'm finding myself doubting our abilities to get it all done by the deadline, and do everything well in this game, and keep the robot built to our standards of quality.
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I'm not saying I want an easier challenge, but if after 12 years and almost all the resources we could need, me finding it difficult makes me think it's terrifying if not impossible for many teams to do well in this year's game.
Anyone agree with any of the above?
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I absolutely agree with you Dave... I read your post and feel so much in the same boat as you, it actually made me feel a bit better. I've been at this for 13 years, have a good amount of resources... and don't feel we will make our benchmarks for this year... Each year we seem to do a bit better with building the bot plan, but it has been a real switch up this year. It is a good thing, but seriously, 112 perimeter is just so limiting. We will get something together, but the dream of being better that the 3 day bot, is sadly fading. I'm glad they did the 3daybot, but now we all compare our bots to it. If you can't make it better than that, why not just build that bot?
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Originally Posted by mikemascot
my team has been having some trouble with the climbing portions so where it was once a student/mentor project. Now it is a full mentor project that has taken the last week up
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And there in lies a problem we have on our team... we have a few mentor resources, but not enough to get through these problems with design. So ultimately we are having to forgo either floor pickup, 20 pt hang, or both.