[Cody Carey]

I would actually recommend that new teams with no experience in calibrating the victors avoid doing so at all costs unless you can get a qualified person to help. We tried it in 2005, when we had all rookie team-members, and it caused us nothing but harm. The 'bot would go crazy during autonomous, and we could never get the controls to respond right. Looking back now, we can see that this was all do to the fact that we had zero experience in electrical/programming, and made mistakes... but they were easy ones to make. Try to stick to the trim-tabs on the joystick. In cases like with the Xbox controller, your dead band is an awesome and simple solution to the problem.