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It was an honor to kick your minibot's butt in eliminations.:D
Seriously, it WAS an honor to achieve 2 very close matches against you in the quarters. Of all the regional video I watched this year, the most jaw-dropping tube scorers for me were 987 and 1717, and it was an exciting coincidence to get to play both of you on Curie (although not too helpful to our record.) While we were a pretty capable hanger, we felt this minibot was the way to challenge prolific scorers like you, and that is indeed how it played out.

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Some of those really fast times had to be re-run. The wire to the sensor that detected when the minibot was at the top was run through the center of the pole, and the magnets on the minibots were causing a pulse in this wire which made the circuit think the minibot had reached the top before it actually had.

I'm not sure what the final times were, but I might be able to find someone else on the team who knows...

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Darrin posted them earlier:

Re: Minibot Competition at St. Louis
 

973 did not compete in this minibot challenge but i do know that every time our robot was lined up at the pole at the 10 sec mark, it reached the top before 9. 1114 told us that they had taken high speed video of every robots minibot at champs to see who had the fastest minibot with deployment. According to some of them 973 was one of the fastest at championship.

If we had known about this competition we probly would have entered. Congrats to Team 1986, it would have been nice to race you in einstein.

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Well, I was wondering to do with all the minibots we have. I was going to use them for a class competition. But this idea seems better