[Citrus Dad]

One other suggestion: Pick a valuable task that may be sufficiently technically difficult, or another valuable task that may be overlooked, to be a focus of building your robot. I'll use our examples for the last 3 years: in 2013 we focused on ground pickup while most others used human loading. In 2014, we focused on midfield play including both ground pass and human midfield intake as well as truss shooting over goal shooting. In 2015, we focused on can grabbing. We gave up other functionalities as the trade offs. All of these fell out of strategic analysis of the game scoring opportunities.