Was the Low Bar worth it?

[Ngang]

Nope. The low bar wasn't one of our best strategies. It was definitely good to have a lower center of gravity for the driving obstacles, but ultimately we ran the other defenses more than the low bar.

Our team actually had to rebuild the electronics board three times because the size constraints gave us so little room to work with. In addition, the fact that we had all these parts all over each other meant that in order to fix one part, we had to dismantle another section to gain access to it.

Even so, the robot only fit under the low bar when perfectly aligned, so we ended up bashing in parts of the frame during close matches.

We learned a lot this year, especially in regards to building under a size constraint. All in all, we built a good bot, it's just that limiting the size so severely for the sake of ONE obstacle may not have been the best call. I think we went with it just to see if we could, especially with all the low bar hype from some other teams.