[Duke_of_Hazard]

I can offer a bit of advice:

1- If defending, present the side of your robot perpendicular to your wheels (you waste no power and they waste plenty), and when they try to get around drive forward and backward. Being able to outguess and out-play other base drivers is necessary in all the FIRST games and certainly this one.

2- At all times, dont view the controls as buttons, but as a sharpshooter would view the trigger. Rough handling only makes you spastic, and not smooth. Feather those sticks!

3- Like in motorsports, the key to driving many of these robots is maintaining the "center of balance". people that have driven cars at the limits of tire adhesion know of this, and keeping your robot's weight balanced at the proper point will get you turning faster, and that can help you juke & jive.

4- If for some reason the battery in your robot is low, the worst you can do is attack the sticks. slowly bring them to power and the robot will move.

5- STAY CALM, DON'T PANIC

More specific to this game -

1- in most fairly competitive matches, you will have approx 1.5-3 seconds to drive up and score a tube, so act quickly and decisively.

2- Someone mentioned before, tagging someone the entire match is fairly wasteful, in most, if not all cases. stay between the scoring robot and the rack, and dont give him a leverage point to spin you around and overtake you.

3- With all the activity nearby the rack, traffic-running is key. It is often faster to go around a robot then try to plow through him. Plus, many operators are so concentrated on what they are doing they dont even notice, as long as you dont start smashing into them!

I didnt want to make this post enormous, sorry, but remember to remind yourselves....this IS supposed to be fun, so have at it!