Help out rookie/less experienced teams

[1359th Scalawag]

Our official rookie year was 2004, but because 90% of our team were newcomers and the rest had senioritis, 2006 became our unofficial rookie year. Our drivetrain was built badly. Because of how we built it, we had to slow it down or it wouldn't turn. At the Portland Regional, we had the slowest robot on the feild but by the end of qualifying we somehow got 1st seed. Our robot was mostly made to do 3 things: score autonomously, push, and get on the ramp. First thing into finals, our drive train finally caught up to us and our opponents didn't let us do any of those things.

What i'm trying to say is that a "bad"(slow) drivetrain can have upsides such as accuracy in autonomous or torque, but any good team can and will take advantage of it.

(you can't push something you can't catch)