[Adam Freeman]

Cory is correct, we were completely blown away during our two Einstein finals matches in 2008. After going through the division tournament and getting pulled over by 1124 in the Semi-finals, our machine was barely functioning.

We did destroy a potentiometer during the SF, which we had a backup installed...unfortunately it was wired incorrectly, causing the arm to drive the opposite direction than it was supposed too. After figuring out that debacle (deciding to go manual), we did not have time to swap out the side plates on the ball collector. So, our normally dead lock grip on a ball was compromised...leaving us vulnerable to 148's awesome defense.

Needless to say we were destroyed by the super alliance of 1114, 217, and 148.

I will say we had an awesome SF1 match, scoring about 100pts on our own, while 16 was having issues. Which gave us a lot of hope for the Finals.

Fully functional, I think we might have had a shot with perfect execution. But, we were fighting against the curse and one of the best robots in FIRST history...so it probably wouldn't have mattered.