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Originally Posted by TheFineLine
You can see this during the 3rd final's match when 1452 was easily harassing arguable two of the best shooters at the regional (before their robot lost connection  ). |
Unfortunately, it was a bit worse than that
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Here's a play-by-play using
this video of what I'm pretty sure happened:
- 1:30:55 - We collide with an opposing robot, which takes our bumper off and drags it to the rock wall.
- 1:31:10 - Opposing robot drives back over rock wall, dragging our bumper with it into view.
- 1:31:38 - Refs notice the bumper and emergency stop our robot
- 1:31:47 - Volunteer wearing black at the top right side of the video tells us what happened.
I (the driver) didn't even notice the bumper until the volunteer told me about it.
Here's a photo of our bumper attachment point afterwards (it was an 8" bumper so we only used one bracket, a mistake we won't repeat). As you can see, one wood screw was sheared off and the other ripped straight out of the wooden backing. Use more screws people!
Anyway, just wanted to post this somewhere because not many people know what happened and how important bumpers are!