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Originally Posted by Looking Forward
Predictions Week One: Overlooking the Outerworks
PNW District- Auburn-Mountainview:
The build season has had its ups and downs for the XBots, who have lost a sheet metal sponsor, but could be the dark horse when eliminations roll around.
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We got off to a slow start this weekend, but I'm happy with the way the robot turned out in the end. The hanging mechanism should be ready to go in Central Washington in two weeks and I think we'll have a more well-rounded machine at that time. Still, I think we demonstrated that we were one of the better machines focused on breaching at Auburn. We're super into our portcullis crossing mechanism.
More importantly, however, I want to thank team 1983 for helping us out in a big way after we received the bad news from our sponsor. The sheet metal shop we've worked with for the last three seasons has been great to us, but late in week four, we learned that they wouldn't produce any of the remaining parts we'd asked them to make. We redesigned everything above our drive over the next day and team 1983 graciously offered to allow us to cut plates on the waterjet in their shop. Without their help, we may not have finished a working robot in time for bag day.