[pfreivald]

We shredded the aluminum gears in a pair of WCP/VexPro dog shifters--reduced the teeth down to nubs over the course of the Tech Valley regional; we had spares from our practice robot (that had been experiencing the same problem but slower) but we didn't have the time to swap them out.

We'd have gotten into the semifinals had we been able to drive ten more feet (an easy breach for +25 points), but instead our motors spun and our robot went nowhere.

...we then had three days to build new gearboxes with custom faceplates as part of withholding--went with AM Toughboxes modified for three CIMs, and had to drill lots and lots of holes in the steel gears to make weight for FLR.

On a side note, our bot performed very well but we couldn't win a game for losing--if we scored 108, our opponents got 113. If we got 75, they got 79, etc. We took the same robot and drivers to the Ra Cha Cha Ruckus, our bot performed every bit as well as it did the prior spring, and did great.