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Originally Posted by TNT101
Team 1507 watches kickoff which is patched through our local TV station and spends the rest of the day figuring out the rules and what the game actually is. After if we feel comfortable we start to write possible strategies but the bulk of that isn't until Sunday.
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To add to what my teammate Taylor wrote:
We spend much of the rest of the day reading, and deciphering the manual as to avoid the "READ THE MANUAL!" problem (mostly). Then after everyone's notes are attached, we basically have a second, easier-to-read manual. Then everyone goes home and is supposed to come back to school on Sunday with 5 designs concerning any part of the robot. Also on Sunday, we choose exactly what we NEED our robot to do, and what we WANT our robot to do (eg.: are we playing offense, do we NEED to get super cells). Then we sort all designs into categories and number them, and then we have a vote on which ideas are the best. Once we pick what we need to do and what we want to do during a match, we keep these ideas throughout build season so we don't end up having to rebuild our robot.
And we also ingest tons of pizza and pop.
