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Originally Posted by Boltman
Well we are in the midst of competing (very tired). I promised I would update as to week 1 going's on. So teams competing know what to expect as they head into competitions.
Here it goes.
In all it was a blast, can't wait for tomorrow!
1. The field is way different than team fields. For instance the bar is much further than our team prop. Its a very wide gap. We can nail the bar in practice but have failed every time on the field... hooked it twice but ran out of time because we could not hook it first time (working on that)
4. EXPECT to be broken.... We broke a tomahawk, sheered off our shooter "had to re-tap with six larger bolts" and had the Andy Mark tank treads break luckily we had the "improved" parts with us... so our bot has now reinforced tread pulley's and shooter that has now broken twice. I hope we are past the break stages since we have all day tomorrow then next week in CV too. That's nine games and eliminations most likely, fingers-crossed.
5. Games will run late, we cut off two games and shortened lunch (30 minutes) to get through today. None w only ttree games behind... two regular one a makeup for a field fault.
A rookie team is winning! They have a super sleek super fast breach bot..wow. Its beautiful. Awesome job rookies!
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These are the biggest similarities i have seen up here in Spokane, 5920 has been leading most of the day, our lead screw mechanisim broke in our 5 match (we are still 5th!) and just the first match was 45 minutes behind with early lunch being called before match 3 and running till 8 last night.