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Re: Team Update 14 (2016)

We regularly make in season changes to our robot based on what other teams did that year and we are definitely doing it this year. The copies won't get you 100% there but they can definitely help. We did a full robot rebuild last year that got us at least into the playoffs at both our regionals and at championship. Last year we actually took a lot of inspiration from 118 and 1678 for the rebuild, so I guess we choose pretty well. Hopefully we don't have to do that much of a rebuild ever again but you can do a lot with 30 pounds of fabricated parts at 3 events. The bag rules make the changes harder but not impossible and even without them no one is going to take 254, 1114, or 118s design and make a better version during competition season, it's just not possible.
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