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Originally Posted by evanperryg

I don't know how many matches "a few" is, but if your driver is messing up in more than 25% of your matches, you need a new driver. The #1 most important aspect of a driver is their consistency behind the glass. If you have one driver that can put up 100 points 50% of the time and another who puts up 80 points 100% of the time, you should always go with the second driver.

We won Alamo and were finalists in OKC with the same driver. On Carson, he made more mistakes than was typical but on the other hand we changed from a 5-stacker to a 6-stacker and sped up the robot. Perhaps it drove more differently than we anticipated. Driving our robot this year was different from most robots - it required precision and choreography to get 5 stacks up. And there were so many preventable electro-mechanical problems it would be unfair to appraise his performance in St Louis.

I think you nailed the culture thing. Our culture includes taking technical risks that other teams might not. But we need to balance that with a zealotry for quality assurance.