[MCC] Minimum Competitive Concept 2014

[Caleb Sykes]

The MCC for this year in my mind should undoubtedly go to 5288 (after their modifications for elims). Solid driving and a system that can quickly catch the ball from a HP and pass it out is all any team needs to be an extremely helpful alliance partner in either quals or elims.

That being said though, I would probably never encourage a team to build a robot like this. For whatever reason, most alliance selectors tend to pick robots that are bad at doing the "primary" task over teams that do other tasks exceptionally well and don't do the "primary" task at all. I would therefore be extremely nervous about going all-in on a design like 5288's, since it could be difficult to show off in quals and we might not get picked because other teams do not realize our potential to be a beneficial partner.