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Originally Posted by pfreivald
Make sure your drivetrain is nails and that your drivers know how to drive it. Defense will be big this year; and like I said, even boxes on wheels can help an alliance gain mucho points just by being able to push a ball in a direction--and they can score it in the lower goal.
That way, if your upper mechanical systems are all utter, catastrophic failures, you can still be a solid addition to an alliance.
(This advice goes for every year of FIRST I've ever seen, by the way. Drivetrain first; then everything else.)
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tl;dr
Actually, it is
Drivetrain First, Driver Practice Second, then everything else.
A drive team should be able to do the routine maneuvering routinely, and drive that robot wherever they need to with almost trivial ease. It needs to be second-nature. Then they can focus on accomplishing the task that is the reason for the driving, not the driving itself.
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