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Re: Team Consistancy
Three things really standout as important to me
1. Skilled Drivers-Easily the most important thing that makes teams great is a superb drive-team. Teams that have great drivers will be picked because they know how to win. The best drivers also make an average robot a great one.
2. Strategy-Great team identify their game strategy early in build season and know how they want to play each game. Having and expert strategist (Mr. Beatty, Karthik, Mr. Copioli) who can identify a winning strategy will make you very consistent.
3. Reputation-Teams that have a reputation as winners will be picked more than unknown teams. In 2005 our robot was decent, but we were very well known so we were picked higher than we probably should have. A more accurate example is IRI this year when we were picked by 1504 before our sister team 70 who has one of the best drive teams in the country returning. We were picked because of our reputation not because we were better.(this is not any kind of shot at 1504 who were one of my favorite alliance partners ever)
Most consistent teams have all these things each year and are very strong because of it.
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2005-2007 Team 494 (Lead Scout and Strategist)
2008 Team 70 (Drive Coach)
2009-2011 Team 1504 (College Mentor)
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