[Chris Mounts]

We had two very strange things happen this year. One was solved, one was not.

In one match at FIM Southfield our robot took off at full speed in reverse just before the start of the match. It seems to have happened at the exact moment it connected to the field. It never happened again and we have no idea why it happened.

At our second event in Livonia. Twice we suffered a complete reboot of the robot just after we cleared under the low bar. We spent hours going over every inch of our robot trying to find some sort of short. Then it happened a third time. This time we got lucky our press person was right next to it and saw what happened.

The polycarb sides on the field were not installed correctly. There was a small gap which allowed the side plate on the arm to get caught. The side plate for the arm was sloped and driving forward pushed the bot into the ground. This meant we could not free spin our wheels and would overload our drive motors going into full brownout.