[Steve W]

Look at all aspects of the game. Try to see what other teams might do. Try to understand the complexity of all parts of the game. Most teams will try to do 1 or 2 things well. Last year we looked at how hard it was to stack and how easy it was to knock over. Why waste 1:30 of a game stacking 5 boxes when another team can knock them over in 1 second. Our human players can stack faster so we let them. As was stated above, a good drive train is VERY important. There is no use in being a bulldozer if you don't have the power to push. We also built a ramp and used humans to simulate designs and test how boxes fall. we found that it was very tough to move around with a lot of bins in your zone. From this we decided we HAD to be first to the top of the ramp.

I hope this process is what you are looking for.