[BumblingBuilder]

For the most part, we build the two bots simultaneously. We fabricate the parts, and the less desirable parts go on the second bot and the better parts go to the competition robot. In assembly, unless plans change (usually time constraints caused by a variety of potential problems), the practice bot is always a little ahead because it is on the practice bot where we address potential problems and fix them so we don't have to face them on the competition bot. It becomes both a practice bot and a design debug robot.

However, this year, we made many flaws in design (not too mention design did take a while). Enough so that, for a time, we ditched the practice bot and worked solely on the competition bot because we worried about how much we could actually get done before bag. This scramble to finish and address problems has become a great learning experience for our team and we will make sure we try not to repeat them (although I could argue many of the flaws we made this year resemble the same ones we made in 2015, so we hope not to repeat them again. Trust me we are not an example of Einstein's (?) definition of insanity).