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135 had 2 FP motors powering their lift.
They burned the brush assemblies on one of them, thus cutting their power input in half. This meant, they could use the lift, but not when there was a tet on it.

For nationals, I've heard they are moving the 2 FP motors into their drivetrain, and replacing them with 2 chips. This great team will only get better. :)

It should be noted, our strategy was ALWAYS for 135 to play defense against the 67/279 alliance; even BEFORE their lift burnt out. This WAS the smart move, as evidenced by Final Match #1.

-JV

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yar. Their mast had the same problem ours had had earlier in the day I THINK...
it depends on what kind of lubricant they used, but if they used a dry one like graphite, it can bunch up on the aluminum and cause problems for any lift. all they need to do is run it up and scrub it down with Brillo pads to smooth everything out, or at least that is all WE needed to do.

EDIT: I guess he would know better than I about their problem, disregard my answer

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thats will be crazy! i was looking at the way it goes up and i was amazed the effectiveness of the fp's, now that they will be going to chip's just means more power!

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Well I hope they are able to get that all working before the matches start.

I don't know if what other people saw, but when I saw 135 defending against 279, I saw full speed ramming, over and over. It wasn't until the second match where these illegal moves had an effect on us though, which resulted in a penalty and sent a message to 135 that what they were doing wasn't right. In the third match the defense from 135 was the best defense they could do while keeping it legal. Their going for our tetras in that last match was a great idea and I believe they realized that the ramming was something they shouldn't have kept doing.

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Thanks to team 279 for picking us up and to 274 for being an awesome diamond in the rough!
I had a great time operating 67's arm out there.
Good job to 229, 135, and 1403; it was was an awesome finals!

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Well, they we out their, perhaps covered by something though. As far as the people in the pits go, even though this is our responsibility, we have a very small team, and we have troubles keeping someone in the stands, scouting, cheering, and running the bot. However, myself and our other operator had already spoken with your drivers. Perhaps we missed your chain of decisions. Maybe paper is important.

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Yea that last match we had in the finals we scored 2 or 3 tetras then waiting for 279 to fill up and we went to stop them aparently hold our arm over top of them from the side dosent work all that we'll well atleast it looked like it did then they decided to go backwards to get out and our gripper somehow got caught up in there and dragged us there for a sec till we fell... i knew knocking the tetras outa your holder was a better idea but hey good matches no harm were still run just as good...but man was it amazing match the one we tied on... yea stealing our strats =p it was a good one tho be shure to use it in the finals mabye side bye side huh =p see ya

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wow what a great competition.

229 and 135 thanks for picking us at 1403 soo much, it was an honor to compete with you guys. I really hope 229 gets into Atlanta, they truly deserve the spot. I hope we can all compete together again.

279, 67, 274 that well played you guys earned your way to the top, congratulations.

also congrats to 48 on their chairman's award.

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First off I'd like to thanks all the teams at Buckeye for a very well played and challenging regional. It seemed much more difficult than Ypsi... I'm not sure I like the reason why ( there was a lot of 'battle-botting' going on :confused: ), but it was fun none-the-less. Secondly I'd like to thank team 279 for allowing us to join their alliance, and team 274 for keepin' that home-row! Most of the finals matches were good clean games, and I liked that.

I didn't like, however, how lax the calls for some of the more major penalties were... ramming and pinning seemed to go un-noticed by the officials, especially in the finals. But, I guess as one mentor on our team put it "Its like hockey... they lay off the penalties in the finals just to keep the flow going."

Anyway, congrats to everyone and see you at Allensdale!

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[b]Well, um.......Cody I love you and so does my woody, but I think you might need to keep your beautiful mmouth shut every once in a while
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