[burkechrs1]

There is no such thing as a "bad" robot... There are always going to be some robots that can't do the task.. But one robot this year proved that anyone is capable of winning. Team 1516 realized early on that their gripper and their ramps weren't going to work out for them. So they scrapped them. Many teams would have lost hope in their robot if it was theirs or would think they wouldn't succeed in the regional. Well 1516 was basically a box with wheels with a pretty skilled driver and ended up winning the regional at SVR. I also think they only lost 1 match out of the whole thing (correct me if I'm wrong).. I admit at first I thought they were a bad robot (just a box with wheels that couldn't accomplish much) but I have much more respect for small teams that just put anything on the field. They were a better robot than us obviously (they won the regional we didnt) and we had one fo the top scorers at SVR. So that says a lot.

Im not quite sure if Im still proving my point, Im doing 3 things at once while writing this, but my point is you dont have to be good at scoring or have a good ramp to be a good robot. Just use 1516 as an example. They never scored one tube or had one robot ramped onto them but they were the 3rd seed and won the SVR regional.