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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
I think I'm in the minority of actually likeing that game. They just gave to many points for the endgame and the eliminations were screwed up.
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I really liked 2003 as well. It was my rookie year. 1075 had a machine with ~4" pool noodles on the leading edge.
Our worst year for violent robot contact was 2004. Teams with dead reckoning autonomous (like us!) to get to the yellow ball were often targeted by opposing teams with a high-speed straight on autonomous, attempting to defend that ball. More than once, this resulted in violent head-on full speed collisions between our robot and an opposing robot. One of these collisions involved so much kinetic energy, it bent the 1" square aluminum tube frame of our robot some 3" in deflection. The remnant frame of that robot is still missing the piece to this day where we had to sawzall that piece out to continue competing at the Wonderland Invitational (and go on to win, with 1241, and 1114.)