[BBray_T1296]

From a team competing at Dallas right now, our robot is certainly was not up to snuff (Friday at least) due to a variety of problems including differences between our home field/the competition practice field/the game field, as well as user errors.

You can practice on your wooden version all day long but competition with the clock actually ticking is a whole different animal. Of course this is the case every year but for teams like us who didn't finish the comp bot until just thursday there are gimmicks that slow performance.

Most years you score maybe 4-10 times over the course of the match, but now many teams only attempt 1-2 high-value stacks that take the whole time. Making even one small error has a massive impact on match score for this reason.