Am I alone in the universe?

[KenWittlief]

usually when you work on getting auton to work, you need some quiet time with the bot alone, so you can run it across the field, see what it does, debug your code, make adjustments, try it again

and you cant have other people trying to tweak subsystems while you are doing this - so you end up there late at night when everyone else has gone home

or like today, going in early on sunday morning :c)

[T967]

Because the auton. is pretty new, I think it makes sense to say that teams haven't really incorporated the extra time needed to program. They jam it in late in the building and even during competition. Programming importance went up in stock last year and now it's even more important, as the Iowa Highway Construction commercial says, "Give 'em a Brake!"

[SlickChicFallen]

if I actually worked on the robot this year, I could answer that... Instead, I worked almost exclusively alone on the Chairmans submission. And I've worked for many many many hours alone on that.
But in years past, I've been the only one awake for 2-3 hours, while everyone else was crashed-out on the floor.

[Stormhammer]

longest a group of 4 of us worked on it? nearly 48 hours... we got to skip school for 2 days