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Originally Posted by CallieJ
766 you were determined, reliable, friendly and optimistic. We spent the whole time during alliance selection hoping you wouldn't be picked before it got back up to us. Thankfully you were available and at the top of both our and 1678's lists, and it was amazing to work with you.
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Wow, thank you for the kind words. Thank you so much 1678 and 1868 for picking us. We had a blast working with you all.
Honestly, we thought we were not going to be picked. We had a very long Thursday full of problems that really shook our confidence.
To fill in on what happen, the third stage of our elevator binded to the second stage and popped out partially. Our bearing blocks were damaged a bit and the second stage of the elevator was twisted. We really thought we were crippled for the rest of the competition. We had to rebuild the second stage and repair the third stage. It took us a while to find the root causes for the failure and implement corrective measures. By the time, we got the elevator running, we missed all our practice matches and were extremely drained from the near miss of having no elevator to score with.
During the panic, we accidentally pulled out to robot functionally light, and damaged the Digital Sidecar. A big thank you to our inspector Bert, who made sure we go through most of the inspection before we replaced the sidecar. Also a big thank you to team 100 and Inspector Edwin for tracing to cause of the problem to the sidecar and proving the light was okay.
After a lot of rewiring, we discovered, that we had a pneumatic leak from debris getting on the gaskets of our solenoids. A big thank you to mentor Joseph (team 2073? I lost track which team(s) you mentor) for helping trace the leak and lending a hand through out the competition.
We finally got inspected Friday morning before our first match. Things were working well, but we never got the minibot system to work. The rest of the weekend, we defiantly suffered from low confidence. I think we all watched too much Inception. We feared it all was a dream, or a dream in a dream and when we woke up, our elevator would still be broken.
We were overjoyed to be picked. Witnessing 1678 and 1868 working together to run 1868's minbot on 1678 was amazing. We could see the confidence and determination in everyone's eyes on both teams. We could not help but get caught up in it. You all gave our confidence back. We wanted to support the alliance in anyway possible. We did not want to let these amazing teams down. It was honor to witness these two teams work together, it was an even greater honor to be part of such a great alliance. Thank you so much for picking us.