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Re: Scary FIRST stories?

At Championships this year, we looked up at the scoreboard to see that our next match was two matches from the last one posted. (The field was running a tad early but we were also kinda late). Me (coach), and our co-pilot began taking the driver station and robot out to the field in a hurry but then I realized we had the wrong bumper color on, so I handed the driver station over to my co-pilot who carried our massive driver station with both arms while kicking the robot to roll it down the tunnel to the dome. I hustled back to the pit and grabbed the bumper skirt, and found our human player. As we were rushing to the dome floor, I called my driver who was eating lunch and told him to get down there and he thought I was joking with him about how much time we had, so he took his time and walked down from the second floor convention center atrium.

We were never in the queue for our field, we went straight to loading the robot onto the field. Because of this, we were not able to pressurize our robot which was heavily reliant on air pressure for pretty much everything (huge design mistake, I know). So we didn't load our bot with an autonomous ball but our alliance partner did. Our third alliance partner missed the match but luckily so did one of the opposing alliance members, but the two alliance members on the opposing alliance that were still there both loaded their bots with autonomous balls, so we were a bit nervous.

Because one of our alliance partners, who just happened to be the planned finisher, didn't make it to the field, we had to change our strategy as they were announcing our team numbers and names. The original plan called for our human player to be in one of the boxes downfield, and the alliance partner that didn't show up's human player to do the inbounding. We yelled over to our human player just before they started the countdown and our co-pilot grabbed the sleeve of his shirt and pulled him behind the starting line just as they said yelled "ONE!" Meanwhile, our driver was taking his time getting to the floor so the co-pilot was preparing to do all of the controls. Our driver got there and saw that the match was about to start and he also made it inside the box with one second to go.

We won that match by a huge margin.
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