[Clark Pappas]

Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder

When considering robots to pick during eliminations this year, I will be looking not only at the robots scores, but also how reliable I think they will be through eliminations. This year I would probably choose a team that has fallen off the bridge several times without breaking over a team that has never fallen off as long as they are relatively equivalent in other ways. A robot that will stop working after a tip is not one that I want to be working with in Eliminations. Rookie teams IMO either build robots that are far too fragile, or incredibly durable, a rookie with a fragile robot would not be a team that I would pick.

Well, if nothing else, we build an unbreakable frame. Twice we tipped on the bridge (That I can recall; once on coo-op with 399 when we got shifted sideways, and once when we over drove with our top heave frame) We still didn't get picked, but this was because we didn't perform well during eliminations with issues ranging from shifting the coach role too much and bad communication, to an unlucky match schedule, to the two alliance having constant breakdowns on or around the bridges. Although I would have liked to think we could have been a decent bridge pick (It's the only thing we really did during the match anyway), we never really got many opportunities to prove it. What we ended up learning at the end of the regional was that we couldn't rely on others to handle balance or coopertition for us, and that we needed to try it ourselves to prove ourselves pickworthy.