[Kim Masi]

I think the trend of those carts stemmed from 2003 championship where the walk from the pit to the field was atrocious, and required going up and down many flights. As a tiny girl on the drive team, pushing those robots gets tiresome. It was similar, but probably not as bad in Atlanta.

When I was in high school, 177's cart wasn't motorized, but we had a mechanical scissor lift that could lift and lower the robot for easy work in the pits. This made the cart really heavy.

Honestly I'm kind of "meh" on the idea of motorized carts. I see students just driving them around to play with them, and that's where it gets dangerous