[EricH]

Let's see:
Competition time-Two regionals, Nationals, IRI, and another offseason. That's five comps, all of which we wound up in the eliminations. Probably about an hour of run time all told, not counting practice and demos.

How did we hold up? Well, the only things that really required our attention were a shattered acrylic panel at our first regional (replaced with lexan, which is what we really wanted there), the batteries (what else is new?), and replacing/repairing our anti-snag devices. The robot is showing scrape marks, but is still perfectly functional.

sanddrag and Andrew (and anyone else who is thinking along similar lines), try playing the game as closely as possible the day you get it, using various strategies (stacking fast, stacking a lot, rows, etc. for this year), and see which one will win the most matches. Then analyze the results and start designing from there. We've done it for several years, and guess what? It works!