[mynameisalex]

evil Froshman... j00 uses my sig...

*is restrained by several armed security guards*

Anyhoo, yes, we are getting rid of the suction cups so that part doesn't apply. We're getting thicker chain for the drive train because it kept breaking; in two of our matches in Cleveland we lost a couple of chains. So we couldn't turn. So we lost matches...

The suction cups will be replaced with sticky pads because they worked well if someone was trying to pull us up off the ground (which didn't happen), but not at all when we were being pushed sideways. They'll just be pressed down onto the HDPE.

Our autonomous code wasn't working well in Cleveland, but it's being tweaked now so it should work at nationals. It's dead reckoning.

We have large black fabric wings; I believe they're approx. 4 1/2 to 5 feet tall, with extrusion wings that fold down horizontally, close to the ground, and it's about 7 feet wide when the wings are dropped. We can get 5/6 rows of boxes with those.

Our bot is a King of the Hill; it has very good traction- even with those suction cups and nothing else we held our ground pretty firmly. In fact, the only "problem" we ever had with that was being too strong for our own good- we'd push our opponents off and then have to back up again, but that's not really a problem.

Our drive train is powered by 2 Chips, with a fisher-price (just one, I think) helping out with the continuously variable transmission.

You can get match information at various places on the net; some people have already posted links, which should be easy to find. If you need anything else, email Froshman (that one who just posted) and either she or I will get the information for you. Good luck!