[DanL]

The one thing our team did wrong last year is we didn't analyze the game enough. We came up with this overly complicated stacking solution that didn't even work well. As a result, we spent all of our time trying to get it to work, and when the competitions rolled around, our robot didn't even move well.

This year we're going to spend a lot more time analyzing the game. Had we done that, we could have realized that it requires far more time to stack bins than to merely knock a stack down or get a lot of bins to your side. Very few teams developed a robot that worked well enough to stack efficiently and accurately. This year, we're going to try and see game flaws like this and design appropriately.