Tips to make your team a contender?

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by Ben Martin

- Always practice under field conditions (if you are a feeder station robot, run feeder station drills)
- Focus on acquiring and handling the game piece (i.e. how will this object sit in my mechanism so it is consistent enough every time?)

These two are very high on the list, particularly practicing under field conditions. There are never lines of totes to pick up on the field and there is never a human on the field to nudge game pieces around. Make it HARD for the driver! Do not make it easy for them.

That second point is why our robots have had rolly-grabbers on all our intakes since 2009. They JUST WORK!!! If your robot isn't sucking it's not handling the game piece fast enough.