pic: Tom defending CT's honor at IRI
 

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Was this during the mentor's round?

if so, did they relax the rules about previous drivers?

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I think it came down that there weren't enough people to fulfill all of that requirement...and at the same time, the field didn't need fixing, thus Tom was available.

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Go Tom!
*cough--jake why did you let him drive???--cough*
:D
I wish i went with 571 like i intended, however, my dad disagreed with my desire to go.....maybe next year

also--how did they do with the whole driving the robot thing?

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yea alot of teams had a hard time of finding drivers, i was even enlisted to be a human player (with permission of course) not like they were check id out on the field anyway

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Our team didn't have a hard time finding people to drive, the robot hung autonomously making the driver useless. So we only needed an operator and human player.

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I think a lot of teams had a little trouble and had to recruit drivers. More than a couple were there without parents, engineers, or a mentor. I know that this wasn't the only instance - 1020 had 447 parents and engineers fill in, 269 enlisted Mike Soukup, Brandon Martus, and Jess Boucher, etc. There were several other teams asking around.

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Well, they did almost tear down the really big expensive projection screen... :eek:

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it was fun to watch though.

darryl noble ran the field with hammond's bot. he was awesome. i think he capped and hung from the floor. 234's mentor's did pretty well too. :)
Scott Ritchie and wife Libby could have been in 111's HP contest. Scott was 5 for 5 i think.

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the operative word is "almost" in that sentence.... remember that folks :)

Tom

Re: pic: Tom defending CT's honor at IRI
 

So, Tom, are you just out of practice, or is 571's robot that hard to drive ;)

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probably a bit of both.
he wasn't driving though, he was doing the arm, so i guess it wasn't completely his fault.