What Will a Rookie Team Will Need to Acomplish in the Build Season

[MoeMom]

If you can do it, I highly recommend getting together and watching the kickoff live feed AND later getting together and watching a live feed or online match video from regionals that are scheduled before your first event(Week 1 or 2). Did anyone use your design and your strategy? to what effect? what other designs and strategies will your bot complement? defend against? etc.
Have fun! You are in for a great ride!

[Boydean]

May I just say, that planning as if your going to the Championships in Atlanta is very good idea. Your a rookie team, and winning rookie-all-star at your regional can jump on you, when this happens your team is invited to the Championships. Putting together all the arrangements between your regional and Championships isn't fun, so spare you some pain and go ahead start raising the 5grand and stuff for the hotel before hand.

Our team won rookie-all-star last year, and raising the money within 2weeks was not fun by any means, so please take the advise and run with it. If you don't end up going, then just push the money into next years budget or something of that nature.

Good luck!!

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Boydean

Our team won rookie-all-star last year, and raising the money within 2weeks was not fun by any means, so please take the advise and run with it. If you don't end up going, then just push the money into next years budget or something of that nature.

Good luck!!

This is really good advice. The BeachBots make a practice of finishing the year with at least enough money in the bank to play next year. It takes a tremendous amount of stress off the team to do this. This is a goal to shoot for, it actually took us several years to get to this point. But there is no harm in starting now. AND if you shoud have a pleasant suprise like the opportunity to go to Atlanta, you have a head start.

[NorviewsVeteran]

Find the person on your team who can best stay calm and collected while managing to remain in control of the situation. This will hopefully help keep down quibbling, aimless arguing, and worst of all, shenanigans. Make sure the person is there almost every day and can stay focused in any situation. Maybe the lesser-interested members will learn from this person.

The last thing you need at the end of the six weeks is a bunch of funny stories about how you potato sacked peoples' bookbags, and a pile of parts instead of a robot.