Mentor Roles

[Racer26]

I agree with many of the above posters, but also have this to say:

In 12 years of FRC competition, I don't recall ever seeing a team that simply could not compete at all.

Saw plenty of teams whose robots were not working as intended, and plenty more relegated to 'easier' roles such as defensive positions (though you'll never hear me say defense is easy. Effective defence is anything but.)

I've even seen on a couple of occasions a team who arrived to an event to find that their robot had not arrived due to some shipping SNAFU, and managed to cobble together a functional-enough robot from the help of other team's spare parts on thursday, that I don't think they missed even one match of that event, and they even made Eliminations.

Basically: Its much too early to resign yourself to the belief that they won't even have a functional robot, as it can be done in under 24 hours if you're motivated.

This year, a box on wheels of sufficient type can traverse one or more types of DEFENSEs and contribute to their ALLIANCE in a meaningful way.