[Kevin Sevcik]

2003, Stack Attack: Game was a giant wall of tupperware totes on a raised center platform with ramps on both sides. This was in the IFI controller days with serial cables for tethers.

We ended up moving shops first week of build to some new sponsors. Some of those mentors thought they knew more than they did, unfortunately. We had a practice platform with just one ramp and a cliff on the other side. One of the new mentors wanted to "test" something and enabled a tethered robot with buggy auton code. Robot took off, hit the ramp at full speed, and flew off the cliff before anyone could kill it, ripping the tether port off the IFI controller in the process. Bot was fine besides that, but it was an expensive mistake.

Said mentors also talked everyone into a robot that was split and pivoted in the middle for "suspension". In one match, something happened and one half of the robot got flipped. We maybe be the only FRC team to end a match with half our robot upside down, but zero actual damage.