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Re: #Team20PointAuton

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Originally Posted by Ken Streeter View Post
Shout out to Team #246, Overclocked, who worked tirelessly throughout the NE UMass Dartmouth District event to secure entry to the club for #Team20PointAuton -- they completed it successfully at least 6 times on Saturday.

It also has to be the most amazingly incredible 20-point autonomous I've seen -- Rube Goldberg has nothing over 246, Overclocked! You've got to see it to believe it -- I don't have video, but hopefully they can post one for all to see!

When they got the 20-point auto working today it definitely gave us something to worry about in eliminations!
Yes, we are finally in the #Team20PointAuton Club as of the UMass Dartmouth District (example video here)

Even so, oh how I wish we had another 6 hours Unbagging between now a NE District Championships as we are not as consistent as we want to be.

We just had a string of small problems that kept from reaching our full potential to this point (yeah, I know, we've seeded 8th, 5th, & 2nd and reached the finals twice with one blue banner -- but I still feel we have room to grow). Chain loosening & jumping track, PWM wires unplugging, Sensor wires unplugging, Banebot motors dying, and (the crowning glory) an axle breaking some time before our two Finals matches that went undiscovered until we were back in the pits packing up (still not sure how we actually ran at all yet alone made and canned several 5 stacks with a broken axle, literally sheared in two, but we managed it).

In fact, that is our theme for the NE Districts Championships: Get Consistent, Get to St. Louis*.

We've got 4 weeks to get ready for the NE District Championships. We are taking a week off then full speed to get consistent for WPI.

Dr. Joe J.


*I was a real fan of Season One of Heroes "Save the Cheerleader, Save the World"
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