[cgredalertcc]

you can't really have good or bad partners. I would more refer to good or bad matches. Anyone who has seen a first competition can tell you that robots change from match to match. There are very few teams that build a robot that does the EXACT same thing every time. So inherintly there are times when you just want to slink away from the driver's station and curl up in a dark corner (even if you are te number one seeded team). You know that saying "stuff" happens. That totally applies to first.