Considering the fact that I had never made a 15 pound battlebot before, I decided to experiment with my first one. I tried a lot of ideas that others had said would never work, but no one had ever actually tested. Some of the ideas like cutting slots into the side of my titanium shell where wonderful successes. Others however, like printing my chassis on a 3D printer where not so good. In the end, I was pleasently surprised that I ended up with more successes than failures and even more pleasently surprised when I won second place in my division. So now I have the knowledge I need to create a really kick ass robot this year.