[Jefferson]

2013 Razorback Regional:

First practice match. Our regular diver coach was very ill, so I was pinch hitting for the first time ever. I'm usually just the controls/programming guy. Somebody (may have been me) plugged the gyro into analog port 8 instead of 1 (the other 6 were all filled, so honest mistake). After firing the first three shots, the robot was supposed to drive back to the center line using the now non-existent gyro. Instead, it spun about its axis at full speed for the remainder of autonomous. The pickup was pretty badly damaged by the pyramid, but it woke up a pretty bored crowd.

Final elimination match. Loading discs, one disc was caught between the robot and the wall. Driver tries to shake it loose, but instead the disc is shoved into the control system, pulling the header off the analog module. This causes some wheel modules to spin briefly, and the shooter cam follower to roll all the way around and snap. Those screws are in the headers for a reason people! Somehow ours was out.

I was glad it was a short drive home from our first "home" regional. Very frustrating weekend.