[patrickrd]

So, there are only five teams here, and only four of which can move. The fifth is us :-p We are having wireless problems, and are unable to communicate with our robots. It's strange because wireless was tested and worked before we left New York. Now, it does not work. Our wireless people are not at the competitoin, so it is much more difficult for us to diagnose what is wrong. Most of the team is at the hotel getting sleep right now, since they were up all night. I'm hopeful we can fix wireless enough to at least run something.

We COULD fairly easily take out our 2003 robots, and win the competition. However, we don't really want to do that since they are not the robots we spent all year working on, and have already proven that they are winning robots. We'd much rather get our 2004 system working, even if it barely works.

So... we forfeited one match today. We were supposed to have a second match, but it was delayed until tomorrow to give us more time to get our system working. The four other teams are Manatoba (Canada), Mexico, Laval (Canada), and Buffalo. Most I think are first year teams. Buffalo is a first year team, is a college club, and is actually very impressive. They've put together a working system that is able to easily beat all the teams here, and they only started in September.

Looks like it's time to go. Hopefully a better day tomorrow!!