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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
I'd say 1592 and 801's beats everybody's story for all time.
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This.
I won't try to top the 1592/801 story but 1902 had a crazy repair moment at Atlanta in 2007. Before our final match on Galileo one of our BaneBot motors we used to power our arm released the magic smoke. (First time we had a problem with it all season.) We called the time out a raced to replace it. The problem was we had mounted an aluminum box around the motor that refused to come off, making the exchange a challenge.
With the clock ticking, and the field reset crew calling our robot to the field, one of our college mentors got out his hammer, stepped on to the robot cart, and began to persuade the casing and motor off as we were carting the robot to the field.
Luckily we were able to get everything fixed just in time for the match. We won the match, won the division, and got a trip to Einstein.
Still one of my favorite memories from my days as a student.