[computhief263]

While i do think that it takes a certain amount of quality to have a winning robot, id much rather have a quality robot then winning robot.
With our 2003 robot, although we had the most sucess ever at nationals (being 5th seed in our division) w/ that robot..it broke just about every match, even if it was jus a minor break it still took time to fix. This is b/c it was a very complex robot, more complex then it had to be b/c we went for the "jack of all trades approach".
But w/ our 2002 and 2004 robots we had fairly simple robots that were effective and didnt break. But for various reasons (including allience partners) we didnt do as well as we would have hoped. But at least i can look at those bots and be able to say w/o a doubt they wont break. And kno that i helped build a robot that worked great, did what it was designed for, and did it well.

So although id love to win a regional or division at nats, id much rather have a quality robot. Especially since luck does have a part in winning a event.