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All i have to say in response to this is;

How? :confused: :eek:

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I would like to know, WHY?

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That's at least the second battery on the field incident I've heard about this season.

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These blast points - too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

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We have a winner :)

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Thats crazy that you posted that I was just watching that movie like an hour ago.

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And this is why we limit the innertubes to 12m/s...

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You obviously didn'tread the fine print on the manual. Tough break.

Chris

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Ouch :ahh:

That scene was so bad that I didn't even see it happen, I looked down for just a moment to write down some scouting notes and when I look back up, there's a mess on the field.

And that's our robot in the background, we ended up getting picked by them for eliminations.

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i saw a few of these too. please, guys, build a real battery mount, preferably welded into your drivetrain. :]

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I was watching that. That basically was the defense scene at Davis. It was intense. I believe just about everyone without bumpers had something like this (but not to that extreme) happen to them.

Davis was insane-like-a-fish!

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That robot looks about in as much bad shape as Greg's battlebot did.


And that robot was designed to slice through anything in it's path (literally. I found video of it doing just that on Youtube). What robot did that to that poor little robot?

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I have pictures oh this from the opposite angle. We were on deck when this happened. I'll try to post them later.
I asked the team about it after the match when they were picking up the pieces. Let's just say, there is a really good reason you use polycarbonate and not acrylic on robots.

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We used some acrylic on one side of our mast in 2005 until we got lexan ready. Davis rolls around, and a team was particularly obnoxious in defending us in a couple of rounds (until we started lifting them by way of a tetra, then let them escape--but I digress). One round, they went up our (1/4"+ lexan) defensive wedges and hit the acrylic. The acrylic broke and we switched to lexan as soon as we could. Acrylic isn't a good idea if there's any chance it'll get hit with even moderate force. I don't think we've used acrylic since.