[bduddy]

A huge theme this year is going to be: Be realistic about the capabilities of your bot. So far, I've seen almost every team over-estimate their ability to:

-Pick up the ball
-Throw the ball over the truss
-Shoot into the high goal
-Catch the ball
-All of the above!

...and it really hurts your alliance when you do that. Teams that lack the theoretical maximum of the very 'top' robots, but that are realistic about what they can do, will do very well - including in eliminations.