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I remember that, it took place some time during the eliminations.

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There was a match at Palmetto where it appeared that 386 accidentally left their robot in high gear. Lets just say, that has to be the single most brutal autonomous I've seen. IIRC, first, they slammed into the rack at high speed and then they backed up and slammed into the wall, followed by another slam into the rack, and slam into the wall, and finally then they charged past the rack, and I believe they hit a robot in the last charge, but I'm not certain. It was painful to watch.

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Right.. Reeealllly funny... :rolleyes:

I think it was match 67 on Galileo. It was actually pretty scary considering I was right in the path of 25's robot.. (and when they're in the center position I know their auto mode basically just goes straight for the rack.. right where I was standing). Suddenly we hear the match start sound and turn around to see robots moving. I'm sure you can imagine the certain phrases that went though my head. Lets just put it this way.. I don't ever want to get between 25's robot and a green light again.

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While I was a volunteer at SVR I watched FRC #8's auto. Their arm went up, dropped the keeper and then started to wave with its articulated wrist.

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This was Match 54 at LVR (I would link it but SOAP has the auton cut off and blue alliance doesnt have video for that match), and gosh....we watched our robot come out and miss, then 815, what pals, whacked us. I looked at the driver station at that moment and saw an expression of horror mixed with shock.

I can link something else from our season that was un-intended but pretty entertaining. Nowhere near the most entertaining, but I was making this little video anyways so its something to look at...

Match 70 Archimedes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk48U0DXXyk

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Oh that was good!

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Wow that was great pushing your bot back up.

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Thanks for the proper info.

That clip is great. That was during the VEX closing ceremonies and you could hear everyone watching the ceremonies go......oooooooo no.....while some poor guy was giving a speech.

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That happened on Curie, too. I forget the round number, but I seem to remember elims with some bright green on the blue side. One for the blooper reel, I suppose.

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In our first practice match on Curie, our robot did some dancing.

Normally, our autonomous just folds out our 3-stage arm, but the programmers forgot that we left in the camera code we were fidgeting with at the end of Buckeye!

Our camera code starts to spin the robot after 3 seconds of no detection...

So we spun with our arm out for 12 seconds each match. Luckily, the arm got us away from the wall before we started spinning too fast.

The crowd was cheering as our programmers were screaming!

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386 was glad to have stepped into that alliance for the finals at UCF. We ran a freshly-written autonomous that went outside and looked for the light. Unfortunately, we turned into the rack instead of into the rail, so we missed every time.

However, we corrected this and added a retry at Palmetto. The retry was fielded in match Q40 for the first time with rather interesting (and nearly damaging) results.

You can check it out at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8uEfDExUR4

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software & Coach

PS. We ended up killing the retry after nearly breaking the 'bot again on the practice field in Atlanta.

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Believe it or not, it wasn't an accident but intentional. The robot was supposed to back out beside the rack, turn into the rail, and look for a light. If it didn't see one, it was SUPPOSED to turn, drive, and turn to look again at a 45 degree offset around the rack, but our guesses and turns and distances were a bit (understatement) off.

This autonomous can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8uEfDExUR4

It was painful to stand in the drive station and watch your own robot doing that with software that you're responsible for!

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software & Coach