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I have two. the first one was at davis when our team flipped team 100 and 997 in the quarter finals, after five rounds we were eventually defeated. classic david and galioth. the second one was at davis again in 2008, our speed controller malfunctioned and we did the entire match backwards, because the controller would go backwards and not forwards. we pivoted to hurdle, and still got two hurdles and some lines, man that was epic.

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I would have to say in Atlanta (I think 2005) I was late to lunch, and I found another teammate on the way to the food. When I went to talk to him somebody said he was playing 'Extreme Twister' with another team - when I got closer I saw the bloody nose.. From what I hear the other team still has a mark on their twister mat.

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My rookie year as a mentor at Atlanta 2005. Coming around a corner and coming face to face with Dean on his speeding segway. He stopped quickly, and after quick apologies, we both went our own ways. Afterwards, it was like, Hey that was Dean!...

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Those 5 elimination matches may not have been the strangest, but where definitely my most exiting experience in FIRST

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I remember two last year: the first was at Peachtree, our arm was powered by the van-door motor and had a positive mechanical stop. If we raised it hard against the stop and stalled the motor, the breaker would blow and the arm would "droop" (it took us a while to figure out what was going on) anyway, there were several early matches where we were heading down the stretch ready for a shot, and at the last second, instead of the ball flying over the overpass, the arm would just become limp. The audience usually responded with a big aaaawwwww...(we eventually fixed the problem)

The second was in a quarterfinal match on Archimedes. Another team (not sure who) decided that since they were unable to defend against our shooting, they would try to knock the ball off our vacuum funnel. They came in full speed and rammed the ball perpendicular to our bot. They bounced off like a cartoon and ended up on their side. We continued around the track and scored.;)

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Last year another robot (I can't remember which one) ran into the overpass and tipped backward. It fell into the forklift of our robot. I have no idea how, but somehow our drivers managed to set it down somewhat gently without getting tangled with it. It was incredible.

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yes it was, and to think we lost because of a penalty:( hopefully we will not have a repeat this year

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That's impressive. Our team thought there was no way anyone could build a successful vacuum... we were shocked to see your awesome robot pull it off.

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Dean Kamen almost never wears safety glasses

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2k2, Battlecry@WPI . . Finals.

190 grabs 2 goals and has both robots trying to pull them off of the hooks (190 used file cards to anchor to the carpet that year).

The front of the chassis of 190 was torn in half, causing shutdown of the robot for safety reasons.

Never once did it let go of those goals.

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In 2008 at the NJ regional there was tons of bots that would extend upwards, strike the overpass, and fall over. Most of the time there was a handy ally with a forklift to right them. It wasn't to uncommon....we almost got crushed by a falling bot haha.

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Davis 2007. 5 matches in the quarter finals was amazing.

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Last year, I was the driver. Our arm went all the way up, then came crashing down because one of the belts slipped off. The arm was useless, so I had to turn around and drive backwards to get laps. I was better driving backwards than forwards :P