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What makes you think if you don't go to competition you cant test to see how durable your robot is?
We make sure on our team that we throw everything we have at the robots to make sure we know what will break, the situations we put them in are far far harsher on the robots than anything that could happen in competition.

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I drove Philup into a wall and he still worked fine (dont tell my teammates that :O) but he broke in competition
you need to test them in what they'll actually be doing or you wont know for sure.
i'm not saying you cant test them out of competition, just that its easier to do it in one. and more fun when you have someone to play against :)

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A wall yea i wont even go into what has happened to our robots... we didn't pick up a steel rubbish bin and tip the contents all over our robot.... (only one of the major fails we have encounted) We set up a field to test our robots on, we were lucky enough to have a full set of foam cubes donated (just make sure your ruler wasn't printed so 1 inch = 4.5cm???? i don even know how we got it?)
But a third former and a band saw fixed that little mistake.:D

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lol, i wont ask about the rubbish bin ^^;;
we've just been using cardboard cubes haha, and one of our guys made cardboard goals to match. electrical and duct tape work wonders.
i've done more than the wall, though :P i just prefer not to post them where trueliez can see next time she comes on :)
maybe thats why one of the guys wont leave any of his possessions around me when he leaves the room :O *sudden revelation*
haha, thats a pretty cool ruler. i'd have kept it just as a novelty and found a new one.
wow, you letter a third former do it? we'd have had all the seniors fighting for that right :)

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Um 70 cubes 3 cuts a cube 70*3=210
making 210 cuts is not fun therefor we let a third former do it and got the programmers to stack them :p

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ok thats true, but with our team it would have been a senior cutting til they got bored, then another taking over, then another, and if there were still leftovers we would THEN make a third former do it :D

Hey! don't dis programmers! XD

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You drove Philup into a wall?! XD

Our team doesn't have an even number of students from each year level which partly accounts for the seniors taking over the build sessions, but it is partly an attitude/ego thing which needs to be sorted out.
a goal for this year perhaps? :o

Nice going with the rubbish bin btw haha

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I heard the unofficial competition may not be happening on the 9th can anyone confirm this?

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I am still waiting to hear the dates and venues for the official Massey pre-regional comps. This probably will effect the unoffical Rangitoto comp.
But it means comps with the fields etc to get in practice for the regionals.

So hopefully your head mentors should have them by the end of next week?
Because the comp dates are still up in the air try not to committ to too many things on Saturdays till you hear from your mentors.

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^^;; did i not tell you?
did i tell you about the battery pack and the controller, then? no?
never mind ><


haven't heard anything about cancellations, my team will probably find out when school starts