Easiest ways to succeed at competition

[Hot_Copper_Frog]

Do your best to remain impartial to bias based on your past experiences with a team, rumors, reputation, and how high their number is. While there are a lot of teams that are powerhouses year after year, most teams go through cycles of high and low performance. Students and mentors come and go. You never know what kind of robot a team is going to field or how easy it will be to work with their drive team.

Going into a strategy meeting with preconceived notions about performance based on those factors can work against you. Don't underestimate newer teams, and don't overestimate the abilities of a veteran just because their number is a lot lower than yours.