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163. Spray paint your pit outside the schools back entrance without cardboard.. (Whoops an hour and much goodini and other cleaners later)

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164. Redo the Chairman's Award video submission during the competition because "It doesn't seem to follow the guidelines."
165. Practice on a surface that is different from the competition surface so that major design flaws go unnoticed. Like having too much friction to turn properly.

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Did this just to see what would break

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166. going around the school gathering rugs to replicate the field floor

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167. While on the field doing setup, have a member of the drive team, with a 1" Craftsman Combo wrench in his back pocket, and the Classmate drivers station sitting on the floor, decide this is the time where he needs to "Show us how he shakes his thing". Wrench was fine, Classmate, not so much.

168. In the Michigan State Finals last year, fail to strap the battery, which leads to zip tying the anderson connectors this year.

169. At Championship this year, fail to zip tie the battery. (practice match)

170. Testing new gyro code, without plugging in the gyro... (same practice match) bot can really turn on a dime though.

171. Let the lead programmer do wiring. 10 minutes trying to figure out why we are jamming all of the time, only to finally notice the shooter is spinning backwards. (another practice match.) It was really tough to see it spinning backwards... thought that would have been more obvious. His defense was.. "I wired it red to black and black to red, just like the practice bot" Oops, I guess I should have wrapped the preactive bot motor leads in colored tape too.

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10b. Teams also included in this exception are 8, 88 and 888.

172. Using a power drill without sleeping in the past 48 hours or more.
173. Show off your nonworking robot to your big sponsors at the end of the season.
174. Steal the 174th item on the list for Arctic Warrior pride.
175. Build a minibot.
176. Forget to bring your mother's cookies, treats and other baked goods to build season meetings and expecting your fellow team members to forgive you.

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Interesting fact we were not originally Team 11. If you flipped our original number upside down it would also be the same. We have always been behind the 8 ball and sometimes we do seem to do things upside down but they workout. So I guess that is our essential team numbering requirement.

197. Use your frisbee shooter under hanging light fixtures with elevation secured by loose planks.
198. Assume the robots shooting frisbees are the most likely to hit you with a frisbee.
199. Let certain people with a track record of crashing into people drive the robot.
200. Forget to secure the trailer door before driving on the freeway.

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181. Not qualify for the Championship

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How about 7 times? :P

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202. Use a skidplate as the only thing holding you up on the back of the robot (2010, our team's rookie year.)

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I'll add
203 Accidently(not me) pressing the "Play back recorded drive-train command" button on one of the joysticks , near a wall.
Especially when the recorded command to test it was me going 0, to 1, to -1, back to 0 just to see if it played the values.

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204. Fall from the 30-point level and break your shooter...

(well... only once in actual competition...)

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Last year, our robot didn't turn either, but that was because we used eight-wheel drive and our belts were too tight

205. Assume that all freshmen understand sarcasm (we jokingly told a freshman to ask the build team for a polycarbonate stretcher because we cut the electrical board too small. Ten minutes later, our build lead came over asking us what the heck we were talking about :D )

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206. Accidentally wire a 5 volt Axis camera to one of the 12 volt spots in the power distribution board, and then when that one gets fried (admittedly with very little smoke and smell), plug in another one to figure out what's wrong.

The programming mentors wondered why the Axis camera wasn't sending a signal to the driver's station. Then they figured it out. :rolleyes: (They couldn't even blame electrical, because they had done the wiring themselves.)

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207. 2012: not read the rules and ram the opposite alliance bridge thinking it would stop them from scoring...
208. after tethering in the pits, not reconnecting the radio to crio and wondering why your robot isnt moving during the match
209. putting the robot away while forgetting its tethered to a laptop... jk... it happened twice
210. forgot to charge your driver station laptop at competition, and realize its out charge at the alliance wall right before autonomous and dies...