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Originally Posted by Nemo
People talk a good game about recommending that other teams leave out a core game function.
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It comes down to team resources. It makes sense for lower resource teams to pick something and stick to it. This isn't a year when I'd advise a middle resource team to skip out on part of the game, and that's due to the nature of the game scoring.
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I'm on a team (228) that is in some respects high resource and some respects low resource depending on what aspect of the team you're referring to. Trust me, I'm not telling
other teams one thing and doing another. There's things our team can definitely do, things our team can maybe do, and things we definitely can't do, and we've used that to evaluate our strategy and to decide which critical game functions to be excellent at. And if the other ones get in the way, they won't be done with our robot. You have partners.
The advice given, to not be a jack of all trades, isn't the top teams trying to talk down to middle teams to get better second picks. It's not only a good idea because you're a better 16th selection that way; you'll be a more effective robot overall and quite possibly a captain or first pick. The advice is gets middle ground teams to win events. Depending on your team, the event, the task, and how good you're at it, you can definitely seed first without doing all of the game tasks this year.