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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
This right here is your biggest assumption - that you need to build two robots to be competitive. As I said, my team never has, and except for two years hasn't even designed improvements after stop build, yet we've been to elims a bunch, finalists a bunch, and winners twice. Yeah, we weren't close to Einstein, but you don't have to be up that high to be competitive or successful with your team.
You are choosing to put that added work on yourselves because you feel the benefit outweighs the cost - but it's not something that is required to be competitive.
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To add to this. I know 610 didn't have a practice bot in 2013 but that didn't stop them from becoming world champions and being one of the top robots of that year. Were they the absolute best? I think most would agree they weren't but they were definitely good enough to be competitive and good enough to have a chance at going all the way as they did.