WOW factor

[pilum40]

No WoW for us. We're keeping it simple, solid and consistent instead of flashy, full of bling bling

[Akash Rastogi]

No wow factor for us either. Just a plain old machine.

[MrForbes]

I hope to be able to say, "WOW, we put a working robot in the crate".

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by squirrel

I hope to be able to say, "WOW, we put a working robot in the crate".

Amen to that.

[Collin Fultz]

/Begin Scene/

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Time: 5:30 PM

Location: My apartment

I enter my apartment to see my wife sitting watching TV.

"You're still here? You haven't left me yet?" I say.

"Yep and nope," she replies.

"Wow."

/End Scene/

[Josh Drake]

My wife sticks around too. She helps with the team, but I feel like I go home to sleep and not much more now.

We're going for a little WOW all over.

[BrendanB]

WOW! I realized I haven't watched TV for a month until yesterday.
Not too much wow on our bot, unless, nah I shouldn't put the disco ball on the robot this year!

[thefro526]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

No wow factor for us either. Just a plain old machine.

They'll be saying Wow when 816 and 11 Are on the Same Side of the Field at Jersey.



Like Previous Years, We hope to wow people with our driving and strategy.

[synth3tk]

As usual, our robot won't be pretty, it won't have a cool paint job, or any awesome-looking metal parts (water jet or whatever it is). We hope our "WOW" factor this year would be winning the regional for the first time since the creation of the team.

[sgreco]

My team isn't really going for wow factor, we're trying to keep it simple and win.

[qwertyuiop[]\]

no wow unless if u consider missing 1/3 of the build season and still having a decent robot, wow.

[Grim Tuesday]

Our kicker. Early prototypes of it were nicknamed The Death Machine, due to the fact that it spins so fast.

[EthanMiller]

We're just hoping we can get the ball over the bump... So far it can... from about a foot away. Eh, mech's fault.

[IndySam]

To us it's having all the robots at the competition inspected working and not missing matches. That's WOW!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

what set the best teams apart from just the "good" teams was ball acquisition. This is evident in the teams that did well (1114's roller claw, 217's arm that could grab a bouncing ball, etc)..

I think you are seeing how the effects of practice and TONS of fine tuning can help you excel in an area where most are mediocre. So maybe instead of asking "What is the most important", you should ask "What can I do really well that most teams will overlook"