Achieving Consistency

[pandamonium]

This is something that my team is currently focusing on improving. We are definitely not experts in this but we have had very good results with our prematch check lists. IMO The little things cost you more matches than the big things.

[itsjustjon]

I've found two ideas which are useful in and out of FRC:

1. Be willing to give up your ideas: You are not perfect, and neither is anyone else. Therefore, every idea that you have is not going to be the solution to your current problem. Listen to the input of your peers, and be willing to work with others on their concepts. Your goal is for your team to win and do well, not to build your robot.

2. Don't fall victim to the Sunk-Cost Fallacy: Just because you have spent X amount of hours or Y amount of dollars on creating your idea/mechanism/robot doesn't mean the mechanism's faults are justified. If your, albeit expensive and costly, mechanism is faulty, get rid of it.