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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
I think it's worth noting that 1678 was not a perfect robot (and they'd admit this). You don't need to be perfect to be competitive and win the championships.
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But what 1678 was able to do, they did perfectly. Every match.. Seriously, I'd love to see the scout data for the standard deviation of their capped stack points per match. Incredibly consistent at the regionals I saw. And Can Grabbing?? How many can battles did they lose? I know they didn't always need to use them, but did they ever not win a can battle? Maybe they did, but I never saw it happen.
Getting back to the OP... It has been said plenty of times already... Practice, Practice, Practice. Find a way to get the students time with the robot. Ever since we started emphasizing the amount of practice time with our robot (or a 2nd bot), our level of competition skyrocketed. This last year we had students practicing several times a week starting in week 4. Granted, our robots have been pretty simple, but we still can compete at a high level. At some point we will "up" our game when it comes to robot design and when we do, we should be able to get further in division elims. Someday...