[EricH]

Originally Posted by Neima

this year my team is majority new/freshman kids so i was planing with the other leaders on my team to do a mini mock kick off on a saturday some time before kick off. where we will most likely pick one of the old FRC games and have the new members brainstorm ideas for robots and make prototypes. a major thing is to only allow them to look a other teams robots not from that year.

Actually, as an added bonus (though it might take a little longer), start by brainstorming strategy for the game. Strategy is second only to drivetrain in terms of the most critical part of a robot (and strategy drives drivetrain!).

If you guys want, I've got a couple of simplified versions of past games that I can drop your way. Even a team member who's been on the team for 3 years already probably won't be familiar with them. (And I need a good excuse to develop a couple more...)