[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by Doug G

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...

And 701 lifted there game this year so that they made a Regional final as the captain and qualified for Champs. And we saw that again at Capital City Classic when we combined to score over 220 points