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Originally Posted by Monochron
An interesting thing to consider would be 900 this year. They were a huge part of one of the coolest things developed in the 2015 season, but unfortunately they didn't get to play on the field. Nor did they have the chance to play with the robot that they originally designed for the game. Still they were picked for their talents and their unique position. I know a lot of that has been covered in previous threads, but Chris's defense of non-picking robots reminded me.
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Ohh, we definitely played with our original robot. It got us to CMP, our alliance partners from NC seemed pretty happy with it too (and it's overly-complicated miserable arm! Curse you physics!).
Nvidia even liked it.
I appreciate Karthik's question here. It's a good one to ask. I can't help but think he is either scouting with it or trolling us all though... I can't relay the conversation in its entirety because its all a bit fuzzy now but at one point he stopped and asked us if we were serious about taking a robot built in a day to Einstein. I think he was actually asking us if we really were as nuts as we seemed before we started seriously building it. The three folks from 900 involved in that conversation all said "yes" at the same time. I now know that one of the things to look for in an alliance partner has nothing to do with their strategy or their robot but rather their determination and drive to win.