We are a rookie team with no knowledge on these competitions at all. It would be nice to meet some veterans who won’t mind showing us the ropes. If you would like to skype or private message that would be a great help to our team. Keep Calm and Bot On 
Build your kit bot ASAP. Program it, wire it, build it. If you get stuck with any of these, come back here and shout for help!
This competition is not very difficult as many people will lead you to believe. Break it up into small manageable chunks, focus on 1 thing at a time. It will be easy.
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As for teams that are near you guys, see if you can find anybody over on 694: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=team_details&tpid=83543&-session=myarea:C77D640502b6927CEEViwl107157
Hey name is Michael Hicks. I’m the team captain of team 2874. I would be more than willing to skype with you sometime and discuss whatever you need. I would recommend breaking your team up into sub teams. For example our team has five teams: Build, Design, Programming, Public Relations (PR), and Strategies. And make sure you and your whole team are over abundantly familiar with the game manual, that is something that many teams over look and it tends to cost them dearly. Let me know if you would like to skype.