Well, I am quite pleased to report that our hard work has paid off!
1519 Mechanical Mayhem was seeded first at GSDE and selected us as their first pick and 1307 as their second pick. With a careful and somewhat conservative strategy our alliance ranked 1st through all of the elimination rounds! Both 1519 and 1307 were a pleasure to work with and we hope to do so again in the future.
Our alliance and drive teams, plus a bunch of 1519.
We also won the Delphi Engineering Excellence Award for the first time in our history, making 2015 GSDE the most successful event for The Grasshoppers ever.
We would like to thank all of our competitors at GSDE, especially the alliance of 138, 190, and 811 (IIRC) that gave us great competition in the final rounds. 138 - we are working on some improvements specifically to counter RC grabbers like yours! Very impressive.
I would also like to give a shout-out to Jim and Jon of 885, Jeff of 58, and Brendan of 3467, it's always nice to see familiar faces helping to run events and your positive words are much appreciated.
We have a number of improvements planned for our robot before Pine Tree, I hope to have some pictures and/or video of said improvements this weekend after we have a chance to implement them.