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My first year on Team 449, our second match of the 2008 Trenton Regional quarterfinals.

After a huge upset win against the top-seeded alliance in match 1, the whole team was amped. Our inter-match maintenance routine involved checking our drive train with a flashlight - this was the first year of AndyMark's 6'' mecanum wheels, and they required a lot of care as they had a tendency to pick up crud from the field and were made of fairly thin metal that would bend in on the rollers and prevent them from turning. One of our team members, after finishing this job, left the flashlight sitting in the robot next to a wheel on the cart.

Well, you can guess what happened next. The flashlight remained in the robot as we placed it on the field, and proceeded to jam itself in one of our drive belts and render us immobile for the whole match. We lost the third match, and the rest is history.

Among various other incidents, this has entered our "team folklore" and all of our new students hear about it at some point or another.