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I liked 1067's last stand, match 110 at stl regional. We were down to far in the quals and we had everyone(all five of us) busy keeping the robot and all its systems attached and functioning, swapping out destroyed peices of 80/20 and the like to do any advertising, so we had no hope for the eliminations. It was the last qual match, we were against our pit neighbors and good friends, fellow saint louis based team 1090, and (i think it was 877 . . it was eight-hundred something) who was ranked 7th, our partner was a decent pusher (not as powerful as us, but more reliable and lower center of gravity). We were going to do the odd and autonomous stuff, they were going to keep our stacks standing. Well match starts, the wing catches the ramp, but we still are first to the stacks (neither opponent had an auton mode, suprising when one was #7) and were feeling pretty good about ourselves with all the boxes on our side and our stacks up and we had the ramp . . . . well then 877 and 1090 decided that the two of them would overcome our bot and be able to push us and boxes onto their side . . . well, they were wrong. I love the video of us taking 877 in one wing and 1090 in the other and forcing them back down the ramp . . . .
well, we won alot to a little, but it was not enough to attract the notice of any of the top 8 teams.
A shame, but we honestly weren't in the top 24 teams there. . .
We may have been, but we broke down and slipped chains too often to be a trustworthy partner. We did it without very much professional help, and, well, we are going to use everything we learned to our advantage next year. If our current prototype design takes shape, we will be awesome.
theres some big ifs in that sentence.
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