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Originally posted by Gope
How is team 980 doing? I heard they hit the stacks incredibly fast.
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We won 9 out of our 11 qualifying rounds and made it to the semi-finals.
Our arm did very well for the most part, and I think everyone would agree that we were fastest to the bins.
Late in the qualifying rounds, several enterprising teams gave us some trouble in two matches by using bins to block our autonomous arm lift and rotation. Once this caused our arm to hit the lexan wall and just hung there. We reprogrammed the arm, but later had a broken drill motor transmission. Our arm swung out and stopped right at the bins in the semi-finals. There were some tense moments as we tried to stow the arm and make sure it didn't go out of bounds.
Saturday, we won the Motorola Quality Technical Award which qualifies us for the Nationals. We were pretty jazzed about that. Now we just have to do some major fundraising. If we pull it off, it will be pretty intense leaving for the nationals 4 days after the S. California Regional.
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FIRST Team 980, The ThunderBots
2002: S. California Rookie All Stars
2004: S. California: Regional Champion,
Championship Event: Galileo 2nd seed,
IRI: Competition Winner, Cal Games: Competition Winner
2005: Arizona: 1st seed
Silicon Valley: Regional Champion (Thanks Teams 254 and 22)
S. California: Regional Runners Up (Thanks Teams 22 and 968)