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Originally Posted by EDesbiens
If the team is, hum, restricted on the number of students? I mean, should we still try to present the chairman or just go for the bot?
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I would suggest spending some time preparing a Chariman's award as a rookie team. You can't win the big award, but you'll automatically have content that can be presented to judges in the pit for things like RAS and RI. Also it gets your team used to the process and allows for a certain degree of self reflection as a team which i've found to be useful.
As for the robot: When you're breaking down the game the first few days after kickoff try to focus on one or two tasks and focus on being the best and most consistent robot at your event that preforms those tasks. In 2006 (our rookie year) 1902 built a simple, but reliable, low goal scoring robot with a fairly rudimentary set of tools and managed to be a division finalist at the Championships that year.