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Re: What are some of your rookie/silly mistakes?

In 2009, our rookie year, we used a screw drive system to prime our scoring system. It consisted of pulling a wire a grand total of about 8 inches. It took about 30 seconds for it to prime completely. We competed with that at our first district.

Come Troy, our big brother team the Thunderchickens tell us about this magical thing called "pneumatics". Took 30 minutes to replace our screw drive, half a second to prime the system (if that).

We have also, in later years, had a problem with not pressurizing the robot before a match when we used the pneumatics during autonomous.

At worlds, a member of our drive team took our drive station back the the pits when we had back-to-back matches in the playoffs this past year. We had to use our team timeout.
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