[fred]

I think that just organizing a pre-shipping scrimmage. In 2003, we had a pre-shipping robot scrimmage and were able to make some major design changes. In 2004, we were unable to have a pre-shipping scrimmage for a number of reasons including of course, budget limitations (Plus, our robot wasn't built!). So in 2004, we ended up debugging the robot at Chesapeake. Our performance there suffered and we didn't do so well because our matches were like experiments. Luckily, we were able to go to a 2nd regional and to nationals and we were much more competitive at both events.