What are some of your rookie/silly mistakes?

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by mman1506

Last year our scouting team didn't do anything because they didn't think we would make it to elims. So when we found out we were the alliance captain for seed #8 we panicked and all of our team members decided it would be a good idea to use the OPR calculations I had been running all day. So our rep walked up there with a laptop in hand (Karthik made a Blackberry Playbook joke) running calculations. We later found out we had chosen 2 defensive bots to join our defensive bot .

We didn't stand a chance

And this is why you always scout in person and don't use OPR. If anything, you can help another team decide their pick.

Rookie mistake on my old team's part: In 2010, we (1002) had our entire frame elevated 1 foot off the ground. Picture here. Well, R19 that year said that robots had to be designed to prevent balls from going more than 3 inches into the robot's frame perimeter... Inspectors weren't thrilled with that, and our fix caused us to get so many penalties it wasn't funny. Also, our driver made the mistake of ramming into a robot that was trying to hang that year.