I have one more general question now that I am on my second to last season of iq. In iq, we spend an absolute insane amount of time grinding hours driving to max out our skills score. Is this the same in vrc? Or do you do less or more driving.
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I believe the vrc worlds skills champ average above 1000hrs of driving practice.
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Nice, then I am well on my way to that benchmark
If you want to be the best, yes. However, you need to have a good robot first. That usually takes some time, maybe more time than in IQ because of the additional complexity and different parts. This gives a bigger advantage to the best teams, who are able to fully rebuild and make a world-class robot in two weeks, which you took three months to make and most teams never make in a year; they can spend the extra months practicing driving and autonomous. Once you have a good robot, then you drive as much as possible. Driver skill not only wins skills but it ensures match wins against other teams with good robots, extremely important if you want to win when paired with sub-par alliances at any competition.
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Nice, thanks for the info
Also, in VRC if you have multiple teams in your school (my school has 5, 3 good teams, 2 average teams) try doing some match practice while your building your robot to test certain functions. Driving on a field by yourself can be useful for skills, but getting used to driving in actual matches is really useful for placing well in qualifications and going as far as you can in elimination rounds. If your main goal is to qualify for state/worlds through skills, definitely spend more time grinding skills than matches.
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