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We are not. 13% of the league has a sub-zero OPR at their first event. This means that our league is producing over 300 teams per year who NEVER EVEN SCORE AT ALL in their first event. This is a design failure of our system. (and I doubt than any of those teams are represented here).
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To build a running, driving kitbot takes an experienced team about a day. If another team is seriously 40 times slower than an experienced team, the problem here isn't the time available, it's that the slower team simply isn't using the knowledge available to them over the internet and from more experienced teams.
Really, the teams that haven't managed to score 10 points probably DO have a kitbot, and probably DO have hooks, but for some reason (electrical, programming, broken chains, etc) maybe don't move in a given match.
The problem is that they, like every team I've ever been on, plan their robot build to fill the available time minus about a minute, and never plan on sustained testing. Given a 7, 8, or 9 week build time, they'll build a more-complicated robot that does more stuff, again spend 30 seconds on testing, then again be surprised when it fails on field.