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Originally Posted by dardeshna
I guess that begs another question, how do teams avoid falling into the "carry" strategy trap and having their robot attempt to do everything, ending up with a situation where it does nothing well? Obviously there are some teams that can pull this off but not everyone for sure.
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Always prioritize tasks and stick to them. You can re-prioritize as you go along depending on how your strategies changes or any major updates that would shift your team, but you should always have a unified top priority typically starting from basic game play up.
It is important to step back from the chaos of the season and look at the bigger picture and do so without being emotionally attached to a strategy or concept. Setting goals like being the best at high goal shooting is a focused strategy, but you have to remember all of the other sub-systems you need to have perfected if you can be the best at high goal shooting. If your drivebase is just "okay" chances are you'll struggle at crossing defenses or navigating around the field. If you focused on making a simple collector you'll have trouble acquiring game pieces which will reduce the number of shots you can take. If your shooter controls have too many variables your shots will be inconsistent. If you are working up until the end of build season without time to test and debug your drivers will struggle on the field learning how to use your robot.
Many of these lessons I've learned over the years from mistakes we've made by not keeping ourselves prioritized and lacking a cohesive effort to field the best robot WE can as a team. Many times fielding your best robot means it won't be the best robot on the field. This isn't a bad thing. If everyone fielded the best robot they could at their events and kept improving their machine FRC would be more fun & exciting. Always field YOUR best machine and never stop improving.
We had to scale back our efforts drastically in Week 4 of build season so we could compete at our first event with a completed machine. It was a little deflating knowing younger teams in our area were doing more than us but we perfected what we had and never stopped improving it. What we
started our season with was far from what we
ended our season with.