[pwilczynski]

I think that as others have mentioned, tension is a part of FIRST that is not only necessary, but also adds another challenge. The best teams are not necessarily those that have little or no tension, but it definitely makes everyone happier when that happens. For our team, there are really only two sub-teams: building and programming/electrical. We have a kind of awards team as well but they don't really need to change what they do based on different design changes. There is a lot of tension this year between the two teams because it is taking a very long time to build the robot because so much prototyping was being done early. Now there may not be enough time to finish calibrating all of the encoders and sensors with the real robot.