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Originally Posted by ComputerWhizIA
OCCRA stands for Oakland County Competitive Robotics Association (thus only teams from Oakland Country, MI are involved in it) and it is a robotics competition during the fall months. OCCRA is similar to FIRST since both competitions supply teams with a kit of parts and have a similar schedule (6 weeks of build and then a month of competitions). The biggest difference is that students have to design, build, code, and test their robot and they cannot use advance machining techniques (such as welding or milling) to build parts.
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Although OCCRA is all good and well, I would really love to have a problem/hint by the GDC that has to do with the next years game, which teams would attempt to solve in the off season. For example, if it was this year, perhaps building a drivetrain that could go over elevated terrain would be hinted at. Then the GDC could have made the rest of the game more difficult, because lets face it most of us spent at least the first 2 weeks of build season on a drivetrain that could go over the bump
. This ideas really growing on me, because I know the GDC would always throw curveballs. For example, if they had done it this year instead of just giving us the bump and telling us to go over it in the off season, they would give us a similar yet different challenge such as going up stairs or something of that sort. Besides most areas don't have opportunities like OCCRA.