[kevin.li.rit]

Originally Posted by MichalSkiba

A serious point for all teams:

Don't plan for doing everything. Thats what we did last year. We were able to do everything, but not one thing well, and that became our weak point. Additionally, when teams looked for alliance partners, they wanted a bot that could perform a complementing function. My suggestion, if you are looking for a challange, is to design a bot that can do one thing VERY well, EVERY time without a doubt, and then try to incorperate additional functions.

Originally Posted by Coffeeism

Your definitely right, doing one thing well is extremely important. If you focus on doing too many things you won't be able to do anything effectively to win a match or be considered for drafting. If you do one thing well teams will probably look for two different robots each with it's own specialty or two robots that do the same thing very well for consistency.

We seem to think alike.