[AllenGregoryIV]

A lot of this depends on your teams' goals and resources. How competitive do you want to be? What are your strengths and weaknesses? As in do you have strong mechanical engineering mentors and students or are you stronger on the programming and electrical side of the robot.

You will probably need some speed controllers. The only options buying new ones are the new Victor SPs ($59.99) or the Talon SRX ($79.99) they are being sold by both VEXpro and Andymark. The amount you will need depends on several things, home many are going to come in KOP, which we don't know yet. How many you will use on your robot and how many spares you want to have. Also if you are planning to build a practice robot that could dramatically effect that number.

Batteries are always useful. We don't go to competition with less than 8 but some teams have gotten by with the the 2 you get in the rookie kit and borrowing from other teams. Batteries will normally run around $40 each. We order directly from MK and they give a pretty good deal to FRC teams. Other teams use other batteries and have other opinions about sources.

Also be mindful for what will be available in FIRST Choice, we won't know for a couple days when the shopping period starts, but a lot of pneumatics equipment can normally be attained that way.