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Re: Most matches for a robot?

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Practice matches need to be considered too, actually. See "fatigue life"--fatigue doesn't care if the cycles the material has gone through are in quals, elims, shop testing, or practice matches. What it cares about is, "I've gone through X,000 cycles, I'm about to *OUCH!* break." (Or has gone through some extra stress, but that's another topic.)
My comment was assuming practice matches on practice robot - not same as comp robot - practice matches on comp post season could be considered - in any event like all scouting to each their own, to judge of what a valuable metric is.

It may be interesting if others shared how many matches it took to find wear out modes? After early failure modes identified.
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