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Re: This year's "game" is a job, not a game
It's true. Almost every time I open a conversation with "So I've been volunteering with a high school robotics team" the other person says "Oh, like Robot Wars?"
The reaction when I explain "it stacks boxes" is always a little fun to watch... but when you get into the eliminations and finals, things start to look very interesting. Races between can-grabbers, the "will it fall?" when a team puts down a precarious looking 6-tote stack with RC, the moment when a robot is in the act of putting down an RC just as the timer hits 0 (will it count??) and who can forget the moment in the Finals 2 at GTR Central when a pool noodle landed inside 1114's robot and toppled the stack it was trying to build, leaving a tote jammed in the mechanism for a few precious seconds.
It kinda sounds lame to read it, but it was so intense to watch!
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