[BumblingBuilder]

We forgot to loctite our competition bot's gearboxes.

This lead to the horror story that was day one and early day two of North Star

The CIMs started sagging on us.

And this is where our errant design kicked in. The back of the CIMs were practically pushed right up against each other, so taking the gearbox out was not exactly the easiest thing to do. We did have our practice bot gearboxes on hand (which were loctite treated), so to save time were were going to just switch the gearboxes out for the practice bot

But this was also at the end of day one, and we played first match on day two. We were internally panicking. The swapping of gearboxes would take a long time, and we were being pushed as the pits were closing.

We left the pits with no drive gearboxes in the robot, and we had very little time before opening ceremonies on day 2. The first robots to queue are supposed to be queued up during the ceremony, but KING TeC was not there. We still had to put in the gearboxes, redo the electrical, and test to make sure everything worked.

In the latest possible time we got the robot out, but we walked out on the field not knowing if the robot was going to move.

In a stroke of luck everything worked and we had a pretty good match. The relief was beautiful.

But we were setback significantly from this problem. We didn't have time to address any of the other things we had planned to look at, so the quals matches in general ended up being underwhelming for us. We didn't show off nearly as much as we wanted to.