Just have a good drivetrain, mogo clamp, and intake/scorer. Don’t try and do anything special, as you don’t have the time (and I assume your teammates don’t have the experience) to. As long as you have those 3, you’ll be set for your first scrimmage.
(the one above is just showing good FUN vex videos)
This would make a good entry into your engineering notebook:
You have alredy identified the problem, being that the intake cannot score the ring/dorb onto the stake.
Now you have to brainstorm solutions! Part of brainstorming also involves research - chances are, out of the thousands of robotics teams out there, someone has found a solution and published it.
But going off of your images, if that is how your stake is clamped, it needs to be angled inward to the robot more (problem subsection A…
Due to frequent questions and discussions on drive speeds, but not a lot of resources on the layouts of the possible gearings themselves, I’ve created this resource for people to see a catalogue of drive speeds that I’ve deemed as viable, and some commentary on each layout.
All drives shown here are on 6 motors, and all drives here are compatible with center traction wheel. (some drives have 8 wheels so traction will be offset from center). The layouts shown can easily be translated to 4 motor …
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vex+high+stakes+mogo+mech