Lesson Learned 2016 - The Positive

[ghesla]

Standards, event patches and ribbons was nice, I hope they can keep this somehow for next seasons. But I think the ribbons could be given to more awards (there is a lot of colors out there) and have written on them the award won.

[jweston]

Another vote for Stronghold having some of the most intriguing strategy. Our strategy team was in heaven!

I also believe that we saw a lot fewer between match delays by the end of competition season. The field faults were tough, especially in the first few weeks, with the chronic defense dislodgement and low bar repairs. But kudos to FIRST for coming up with solutions and getting a lot more matches running on time. This was a massive improvement over last year. It's not perfect but we actually got to leave on time some days.

[engunneer]

Many of the above, and additionally I really think they did a great job with the protected shot from the outer works, because it made teams have a tradeoff between long protected shots (which need to be fairly accurate) or close shots with a wider margin of error (which need to be fast)

The engineering challenge itself was pretty straight forward, and it was mostly a packaging problem. How to fit all you want to do in the space you have?