while designing our robot, we made it a stacker because we thought that would be what won the matches... turns out only one or two people tried stacking. i was really happy with our bot though, especially being a rookie team (1104). not a single robot there could push us, we could go under the bar, and we could stack if we needed to. i was the teams programmer, and there were quite of few people that sounded impressed that i'd written over 15 different programs for our robot. i ended up writing programs for 3-4 other robots, allies and opponents alike, and looking over a couple other teams programming. we ended up tying for 17th place, and two other kansas teams ranked under 40th (washington and newton) went to finals. i was disappointed, but there's always next year. i'm curious as to our design flaws, though. what do you think was bad about it that we could've done better? i'll end up printing off the replies and using it as a team discussion. thanks for a great time in St. Louis, and good luck to whoever's going to Houston.
Matt Torrey
Programmer, Axtell TechnoEagles #1104
Friday's Rookie All-Star Winner
