[bnardone64]

Glad to hear your story, 2791. You guys did great, so close to a win. Maybe if that hadn't happened...

Team 1100 had its share of problems in eliminations at WPI. After the first match, the slider plates on our lift started to come loose. This wasn't a big problem so we got out our t-handles and tightened some and replaced some others. When we enabled the robot and moved the lift to make sure everything was working, the lift caught on some wires and cut one in half. The broken wire contacted the frame and short-circuited our digital sidecar. (although we didn't see the broken wire at the time) Over the next 4 matches, we ended up replacing the sidecar, our compressor spike, and a bunch of PWM wires, with no luck. We were able to drive after the first round of repairs and managed to win a match and advance to semis, but we didn't get the shooter back to working in time. We only found the problem in the pit after we were eliminated. We were able to fix it there in about 15 minutes.

Thanks so much, team 558 and 2370 for an amazing job keeping us in it for so long despite our problems. We look forward to competing at Boston and at the championships in St. Louis!