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Short and sweet answer: Consistency is key!

The easiest way to accomplish this is to give your drivers lots of practice. Preferably, build a practice robot with the same drivetrain and similar (if not the same) mechanisms. Let your drivers abuse the hell out of it. By the time you get to your first competition, your drivers will be skilled at driving their routes, avoiding defense/defending, etc. When things break on the practice robot, the team will know where the weaknesses in your robot are and have a good idea of how to fix them.

If you can't build a practice bot, plan to finish building your robot by week 4. Then when you aren't dont building till week 5 for whatever reason you'll still have a week for driver practice, testing, and coding. You won't show up to your first competition with inexperienced drivers on untested code.