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Unread 15-12-2010, 21:26
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Re: Rookie Team Tips!

1. Try to find a close-by team that is willing to give advice. There is a lot to the culture you can pick up from another team, plus they will fill you in on things you need to know that aren't clear in the rules and official papers. (Last year I inspected several rookie teams that did not know to bring a cart to transport their robot from the pits to the field). If you don't have a team locally, find one somewhere else and Skype them every day or so. Discuss your plans and problems with them.

2. Don't be too ambitious building your first robot. Find one thing in the competition you feel is important and that you can do well, and design your robot to do that job. Be a "one trick pony" and you will do well your first year.

3. Plan out your season. Six weeks seems like a long time at the first, but every day not used to its fullest is a day you can't recover at the end.

4. Ask lots of questions, and consider answers carefully.

5. Analyze the game and come up with a scoring strategy, then built your robot to meet it.

6. Aim High! Make your first-year's goal to win the Rookie All-Star Award. Get started on it NOW. That's more important than having the best robot on the field.

7. READ THE RULES! Then read them again. Read them every day.

7. Have a great time, enjoy yourselves, learn much, and look me up in St. Louis.
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