How important skills is. I literally ignored it during a good part of my freshman year, and then when I found out during the end of the season that skills could qualify you for worlds, I tried getting runs in. However, at the state tournament, because we had no practice with skills, and a really thrown-together auton, we made mistakes, and fell a few spots shy of making it.
I would also say how important having something autonomous-wise that can help get a win point is. We didn’t get a single program ready before our first tournament, and I felt so bad when we ended up in quals with really good teams and pretty much prevented them from getting a win point.
I would disagree, one freashman wont take his shose off and we have to clean our flexwheels after 5 mins. I don’t see any impressions in the floor either.
Dirt is a big problem, and our flex wheels look like a cat peed on it, then somebody rubbed hair and dirt on them. Nobody ever takes there shoes off except for me
Preferably a while before, giving you enough time to make sure they’re still working by the time of the comp. My team has made many autons that worked the night before, only to fail miserably once we were at the competition.
If you have a larger team then be prepared to stand up for most if not the whole tournament while you are at your pits. Maybe this is just a local thing but we only get two chairs per table (two teams per table).
