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Re: Do you think a practice robot is needed to compete?
I answered #1 because it's closest to our reasoning, if not entirely accurate.
Our sponsorship resources have been generally rising year-over-year, despite a number of big "hits". On several occasions, our coaches, mentors, and boosters have explicitly considered "what do we add" nearly as seriously as we would address "what do we cut" if finding were to decrease. Each time, we have applied resources to both outreach and competitive capacity. On the competitive side, we did a "prototype" robot with a wooden frame in 2014, and in 2015, we did "twin" robots. Each of these gave us more driver practice than ever before, and better use of the withholding allowance to implement improvements worked out after stop build. While the second robot isn't strictly necessary to be competitive, we've found it to be a highly useful and cost-effective tool to help get there.
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Last edited by GeeTwo : 11-21-2015 at 10:34 PM.
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