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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
3) Robots are "hard". By which I mean that teams bite off too much at once. The only way to be successful in FRC is to focus on what Andy Baker has deemed the 3 most important aspects of your robot. The Drivetrain, The Drivetrain, and The Drivetrain.
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This. So much this. You cannot emphasize this enough.
Our ball acquisition broke (in a crippling, multiple-hours-to-fix manner) partway through Greater DC this year, and we were selected by the winning alliance because we had a reliable, beefy drive and could push people around extremely well on defense. That our robot spent ~70% of the competition doing nothing at all with the ball was immaterial.
At Chesapeake, our drive stopped functioning effectively (
for a number of reasons), and even though our manipulator was functional, we did terribly.