Thanks Doc-

We were looking all over for you in the rosters when we found out we were going so we could repeat our Friday polynesian party like last year. It was disappointing to see Foothills absent. Sorry. Of course, if any of the team is travelling to Fla. anyway as spectators they are welcome to be a part of our group for all our events.

Of course next year is OUR year and we should start planning an ODD team blowout.

Thanks for the confidence in our machine. Since it wasn't telecast, nobody in the country saw the Rutgers Regional and has any idea what the Scorpion has to offer. We'll show them all later this week. Should be fun. I think some of learned predictions made in other threads may change becuse there are a few RU based machines with a lot of merit which nobody has really seen.

Anyway, I hope your prophesy comes true. It would be great for a team from the waiting list to get that far- and a real comment on the rules change this year.

WC

I'll be there.
 

Thanks Wayne - If you have a party I'll come.

It was really sad - we were on the waitng list, But I found out on April 4th, that we got in - The team was on Spring Break, so they didn't find out until the 8th - The logistics of getting everyone drug screened (A requirement for Foothill students) going out of state - tickets, Hotel accomodations, permission slips, rearranging teacher schedules, etc. just made it impossible.

I think it is amazing our designs are so simliar - we don't have a go home device, and our robot is simple - four motors and one pnuematic system - but it deploys two arms as it moves forward, snags two goals moves them into scoring position, and then we deploy a brake plate that lifts the robot off its weels and transfers the weight of the goals to the plate - it worked fairly well in practice, but we were heavy and had gear stripping problems with the Chippuas. We only got the robot to run well in four of the matches and we lost them all because of unfavorable alliances.

Did have a great human player - sank 6 out of 10 from extreme range into a moving target on three occasions. Sad - oh well - with a little more practice I thenk we would have been a Beatty Beater. I wish we were there only to show that a team with limited technical resources can be as competitive as the 'fancy' teams. (wait a minute - we already proved that in 2000!) -

I expect the Raiders to carry on!