[Abhishek R]

I think we usually more or less decide our overall strategy on Kickoff. We don't do any form of prototyping that day, but it's a brainstorming/envisioning how the game will be played out, and prioritizing tasks.

During build season, we aim to prototype for 2 weeks, build a prototype bot for 2 weeks, and then build the competition bot in 1 week. Of course those are not hard deadlines, they do blend into each other at the transitions, neither has every build season played out like that. But it's a general idea.

It's definitely to your advantage the sooner you finish the robot, although it seems obvious, it gives you time for practice, programming autonomous, maybe aesthetics, and other things. I would pretend build season is only 5.5 weeks long, if not less, just so you finish slightly early to troubleshoot things.

I've been kind of wondering; how do you build a practice bot and competition bot alongside/at the same time? Especially if you don't use any/little CAD?