[Gope]

Speed is the key this year, without a doubt. Although, one must consider that we are limited not only by hardware and software but also by human reaction time. You need to make sure that you team doesn't over do speed, because as I have witnessed last year, too much speed very quickly becomes a lack of control and thus a nearly useless robot. This year, I feel that gears a needed, not to control torque but to control a maximum speed.





Teams I expect to be blazing fast: 25, 60, 111, 312, 343


I also expect this year to be the year of the driver. I think that this year we will, more than ever, see excellence in driving technique and skill to be as great of a deciding facot as the quality of robot(ofcourse, this is an overstatement, but not a huge one).