I’ll start out with one. Using rivets for bearing flats is way better then screws, its lighter and saves a ton of time.

Don’t worry about making a notebook or doing skills. These don’t really do anything and just distract you from the actual competition

Arrive at a tournament significantly over the size limit, spend the next 2 hours frantically dremeling and sawing to fit the robot in size while not using proper protective gear. We were in a room with a team who did this. They also shattered a HS 60 tooth gear by trying to lift their all steel tra…

Good Advice you say [Good Advice] And to keep this on topic don’t do driver practice its a waste of time

zipties they work way better than screws and make sure to use only 1 screw per motor, if that is needed

Forgot write your auton on the car or ever better on the plane ride to worlds or U.S. Open it works far better and who needs to test it work way better if you just go for it in the moment.

@DRow can u merge the [image] What is the best advice you could give? Chit-Chat / Rumor Mill Basically an opposite to What is the worst advice you could give? I couldn’t find any forum with the same idea so I decided to create one. So feel free to give out the best piece …

I disagree. They are the complete opposite poles. Best advice, Worst advice. One is where newbies in VEX can get advice on WHAT to do and the other is advice on WHAT NOT to do. Annnd to keep this on topic… Ask a mod (THE mod) to merge two threads that are completely different (He could smite you. …

ahhh, the wheels! (20 characters)

But they’re both advice, no? Wouldn’t it be better to just have all the advice in one place?

Actually, I’d have to partially disagree. This thread should be merged, but not with the one previously mentioned. This thread should be merged with the official Change Up Q/A. I think many questions found in the Q/A have actually been answered in this thread.

What is the worst advice you could give?

Chit-Chat / Rumor Mill

Ethan5956F May 23, 2020, 11:34pm 365

@DRow can u merge the

thread into this one? They’re too similar to have they’re own separate threads ngl