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Re: Should we rebuild our robot to be an autonomous container grabber?

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
If you're going to make such a drastic change on a Thursday, I would definitely want to have already built one so you don't have to do nearly as much tweaking at competition.
The interesting thing about planning for a complete Champs rebuild into a 4 RC auto specialist is you don't necessarily have to be working Thursday. If your whole plan is to be good enough at 4 RC auto to get nabbed by a stacking fiend alliance, then you clearly don't care about your ranking. All you need is to show up at enough matches to convince one of the higher ranked teams that you're worth a pick. It's entirely possible to do that with your handful of Saturday morning matches, though you're better off if you fit one or two demos in Friday afternoon.

57 accidentally did this in 2007 at Great Lakes. We had a double ramp lift that was broken all thursday/friday till we had the the BB gearbox shaft welded to the planet carrier. Lift worked flawlessly Saturday morning and 1114 was the only team that noticed and nabbed us as the last pick of the draft.
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