pic: REX (Team 4334 - Alberta Tech Alliance)

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Gray Adams

I don't know about you guys, but I would be pretty disappointed to show up to a regional and see 30 basic, support level robots and 20 robots that try to play the full game. It's the ideas that I see in every robot that makes it so much fun to go to competition. Winning is great and all, but how much does it really matter?

Would you rather see those same robots accomplish nothing on the field?

Making picklist at events is rough, it pretty quickly hits a point where robots are really barely able to do anything.

This is an unfortunate fact; these teams aren't all made of dumb, lazy, unmotivated people, but the robots just don't perform. It makes you wonder whether or not their build strategy is flawed.