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I'm sure I clapped during midwest, but I'm not sure how enthusiastic I was because I was bummed about what happened to our team. That saturday morning at alliance choosing time, we were thrilled. Through the powers that be, we wound up tenth. Because of alliance choosings, we were bumped up to be head of the 8th alliance. We chose 201 and 247 as our partners. The disturbing part is that we suffered a motor problem in our last match and our pit crew worked frantically to fix the motor. It still wasn't fixed by our quarterfinal, so we stayed out of the first match. 201 and 247 did well, but we lost 69 to 62, setting us back 130 points. When we came in, disaster occured. When autonamous started, the supposedly fixed motor blew a pin. Because we use tank drive, the robot swerved to the right, and ran into the wall. The wheel went outside the arena, and we were disabled. This deeply bummed me. Sorry about all that, just needed to vent.
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"Hey Mark, while you're out scouting, tell the other teams our robot has a Flux Capacitor"
"No. Even if we did, we lack both the plutonium power supply and the motors necessary to reach the 88 mph requirement for time travel. Besides, the Infinite Improbablility Drive is way cooler than the Flux Capacitor."
(commence 20 min argument)
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