[Gene F]

Thanks for the question miketwalker. We had a very brief practice before the hockey match started and our traction was fine. The competition was played after a period of play and before the Zambonie came out. There was a lot of ice chips on the ice then. They packed onto our tracks and made it very difficult to move. Maybe we should have precooled our robot before we went out. We would have loved to use our 2002 robot Manuel Overdrive but they asked us not to use it because, like Blizzard 3, it has metal wheels. A FIRST competition on ice would certainly produce some interesting designs.