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Re: What was your teams worst expierence during competition?

With 1592:

2008 Champs my senior year: Friday afternoon, my dad accidentally knocked over our driver station (why it was standing on end at the corner of the pit idk...) and it broke one of the driver joysticks. All we had for spares were the awful white things that used to come in the kit. We epoxied it back together over night. Robot did excellent all through quals. We were the undefeated #1 seed in Curie. Picked an excellent alliance (if I recall correctly we had 3 of the top 7 OPR teams in the division). Then our robot Xena, slowly and painfully died. First the shifters wouldn't fully engage so we had to manually lock in into high gear. Then we lost a key in our arm so it wouldn't raise, mentor cut off an end of an allen key to fix it on the field. Because the white joystick was so awful we switched to the epoxied one, lasted one match then the next it snaped and had to drive with a 1/2" stub for the remainder. Then the drivetrain finally died in the last semi match and we couldn't move. Had we'd been 50% we would have made finals. That was rough...

In 2006 quarters of Galileo our main breaker developed a micro crack (mentor took it to work and found it afterward). After auto we would lose all power until someone hit the bot. Literally that was all that we needed was to be nudged and it would come back to life. After the 1st match we planned on a partner (MARS i believe) to hit us if it happened again except they had comms issues. Basically had 5 minutes of front row seats to watch Rush and (our future friends) Winnovation score at will.

Last but not least would have to be 2007 at Waterloo. We had terrible luck in quals, finishing 4-7 mostly because our opponents were good and when we'd get good alliances our partners would break down. Thankfully Blizzard liked us and picked us. During quals we took 1503's alliance to 4 matches. During the last one we were defending 1503 who had a spoiler and instead of me telling my aux driver to drop our ringer we hold onto it while playing D. During the pushing and banging the ringer slips out of our claw and lands perfectly on our own scored rung, essentially spoiling ourselves. Had that not happened we would have played Simbotics and OP (OP's first competition ever). Not saying that we would have beat them (cause they were really good) but I sure wish we had the opportunity, would have been fun matches either way.

Its struggles like this that make this year's success with 2338 all the more satisfying.
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Team 1592 Bionic Tigers -- Driver 2005-2008
Winner - Florida Regional 2005
Finalist - Newton Division 2007
Winner - Colorado Regional 2008
Florida State University - BS Mechanical Engineering
Team 2338 Gear it Forward -- Mentor/Drive Coach 2013-Present
Winner - Wisconsin Regional 2013
Chairman's Award - Midwest Regional 2015
Winner - Archimedes Sub-Division 2015
Chairman's Award - Midwest Regional 2016
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