[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Agreed. Looking back its extremely easy to see how a few strands of surgical tubing on a robot were a huge asset in the final rounds but I would not encourage a team to build a trampoline bot back in week 1 (which was a concept we penciled out day 1). If a kitbot with a basic structure and surgical tubing is what you can build might I suggest Vex or FTC which might better suit your team? Teams like 5136, 4908, 5112, and 4909 were extremely good at what they did with just intakes and practiced drivers.

Sadly when teams are successful at building a MCC you tend to get picked in tough positions (usually first/second round of the bottom four alliances) which is what happened to us in 2011.

This. We tried to build the 'ultimate assist & catch' robot last year and we wound up getting picked first-round at both events, but by the lower-half of the grid. We then got knocked out in the quarter-finals at both of our events, it's a tough fight for seeds 5-8!