[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen

Most robots will probably be some sort of forklift, and it'll be the little things that differentiate the 'meh' teams from the great teams. As a result, a lot of teams probably want to keep their 'special sauce' a secret until after Bag Day.

There's a good chance that I'll be proven wrong in a week and a half, but that's my theory at the moment.

I think there's a VERY good chance that you will be proven RIGHT. I see this every year.


It's not easy to build a robot. Often, multiple teams will come out with similar designs. What differentiates them is something small. Might be a wheel choice, or maybe more driver practice, or some minor mechanism that actually serves a critical function.

And if you can keep that "secret sauce" under wraps until unleashing it at your first event, you can surprise everybody and force them to try to copy it to keep up.