Quote from the "pet-HotBot" thread mentioned earlier, but it fits better in this thread.
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Originally posted by SharkBite
the best match i have ever seen (i know it says this year but i still want to say this) was back in 99..... it was at the philly regionals and i have no idea which teams were involved anymore
for anyone who wasnt around, that was the year we had to lift the floppys 8ft off the floor or something for them to be worth 3 points.... well with a whole stack of them, the mechanisms to do that were around 13ft..... 13ft high and under 130lbs is not a good combination
what was the result? 3 of the 4 robots on the field went over... a huge arm almost took out the camera man (it was sticking out maybe 5 ft).... and 2 of the robots were hanging way into the crowd and over the top of the drivers
it was a complete disaster and im sure thats why none of the field challenges have required that much hight since
if ANYONE remembers this and has a video PLEASE send it to me.... i would love to see it again
Becky
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If it's the same match I remember, it was my high school team Truck Town Terror (team 68) and Robbe Xtreme (team 56) against two opponents I no longer remember in an elimination round (quarter or semi) match.
The strategy was for us to control the puck and for Robbe to gather floppies. We grabbed one floppy, pushed the puck to one side of the playing field in our scoring zone, and held it in place. Robbe drove up onto the puck with a basket full of floppies and was raised it up to scoring position toward the middle of the match near the edge of the field. One opposing team tried (in vain) to push the puck into their scoring zone. The other team drove onto puck and raised their basket full of floppies under Robbe, picking up their entire lift system. The whole basket flipped over the side of the playing field and dangled there. T3 then attempted to climb onto the puck, pushing against the team with floppies up in the air. The fight was a stalemate until we starting lifting our basket, which in the struggle for the puck, was pushing against their lift system. This slowly pushed their entire robot over, lift crashing out of the playing field in the corner and narrowly missing a camera man. Our basket and lift slammed into the human player station as our robot tipped over as well, but stayed within the field and off the ground with no time left on the clock. Final score, 2-0 (1 floppy off the ground * 2 for the puck in our scoring zone) in favor of T3 and Robbe. Robbe gave our 'bot the nickname "Killdozer" after that match.
Probably my favorite match ever. I only wish I had video of it.
Another great match at the same regional (which won us play of the day) showed the pulling power of T3. The puck had been pushed so hard into the field barrier that one of the caster wheels hopped up and over the 2-by-4 edge of the playing field. The puck was being held in this position by both opposing robots as our alliance partner sat onto of the puck. We were able to pull the puck back into our scoring zone for the win, horribly mangling our hook in the process (good thing we had spares).
So many other good T3 memories...
Shearing a 5/8" tool steel shaft in 2000 after replacing the 'weak' pin with a steel bolt and joking that we'd shear the shaft before the fastener is another good one.
Adam