[eedoga]

In the name of being as open with our failures as we are with our successes...

The design as it currently stands does not work. There is too much flexibility in some places, and not enough in others. The system doesn't move the way we expected it to, nor does it react the way we wanted/thought it would.

Also, it is too heavy...

I am sure there is a team out there that could make it work, just not this team given the resources we currently have. So, we are back to the drawing boards, only we don't have 6 weeks...We have 4 days.

We still plan on climbing. We hope to get something working before bag day, but more likely we will be designing our climber using our withholding allowance and assembling it on the first day at competition, something we had hoped to avoid. The good news is that we have access to a tower at our neighboring team and we know what we need to know in order to make something work...We just hoped to have something working before now.

I am trying to keep the kids happy and feeling good. We did take on this incredible challenge in order to grow as a team and as individuals...

We will post revised plans as we make them.

Edoga