Quote:
Originally Posted by CraigHickman
If your alliance members during qualifications have affected your performance as an individual team, then you've already failed. The reason I say this is because in order to have their performance totally screw you over, you must have decided to rely on other teams. By that nature alone, the robot wouldn't be elim worthy. A lot of people are going to disagree with me on this, but here's how I see it:
In order to be a high power competitive team, you need to be able to do everything on your own, with no outside help, and be able to do it FAST with very little driver influence. Until a team can find this niche, you won't see them on Einstein.
|
I disagree with just about every word of this. While you should build a self-reliant robot, but calling a robot a failure if it fails to do everything in the game is asinine. Try telling every ramp robot from 2007 a failure because it relied on its alliance partners for points!
Is a high-power, competitive team the only answer?