[mrmummert]

We won the Nasa/VCU regional that year. We had a good shooter and storage,good auto and a heavy robot that was hard to push, our finals
partners were 1598 and 343. It was built so robust that a couple years
later one of the students drove it off the stage at school and there was
very little damage and it kept running (its since been partly rebuilt to keep it
running for demos) It could also be run by only one student which made it simpler.

We had a auto that could be changed for each match just by turning a switch so the opposing alliance had a hard time countering it. Sometimes we went right out and started shooting...other times it could go forward a little then stop and wait for a opposing alliance robot to come by (with the intention of hitting us) and then move to shooting range and shoot in auto.

On the down side if some one hit us we couldn't shoot at the target
and had to move. Also we lined up in auto using dead reconning since we didn't have time during build to add the camera. Almost all times it worked, but once in a while it didn't. We had to add sights so it was easier for the
students to line it up. If someone got in front of us while shooting they could
block us. Luckly we had a fast shooter.

If I would have added anything it would have been mechanum wheels as it would have made us more manuverable.
While we did great at Nasa/VCU we did'nt do so well at Atlanta and learned the lesson that the winning robots in Atlanta
are in a very different class and we try to aim to built with that in mind.