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Originally Posted by Greg Perkins
Boohdah,
This is what I was hoping would not happen. Being a Ref. we discussed this manuever. There is no need to revist issues that were allready finalized on the feild.
Anywho,
Congratulations to the alliance of 222, 284, and 145. Also, an amazing effort by 341, 175, and 357. Personally, I would like to compliment my team as they made a 7 hour drive to PA. for this event. Through the first match there was a lot of issues, HOWEVER, they fixed it and went on to seed 2nd. CONGRATS!!!
222 It was an honor to be a Ref. at your event, I hope I will be invited back next year to return to the Ref. staff.
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A little additional to add to this- the round has been eating at me all night too,
In the earlier round where our machine was trying to hang with Miss Daisy and the two hanging robots got entangled our arm's electrical system somehow got crimped, shorted out and melted the entire lead system. As a result we only had two ranges of motion- vertical twist and the shoulder lift arc- no elbow to close the angle joint. And with time flying between rounds we made the decision to leave the immobile joint as an L and try to use it to uncap the goals and the base to run interference as much as possible. It may have appeared that we were playing with a "weapon of death" but that really wasn't the intention. Frankly, it never occurred to us until later that a few zip ties across the hook would make it "weedless"
Anyway, in the aforementioned round, the robots came out and our machine got into the fray with Gizmoe over the rolling goal and big ball. In the excitement that hook just angled into an edge of the frame and when the EM moved, Gizmoe landed on top of it, mangling the hook inextricably from the mass. Invisible from the driver station, the drivers tried all manner of turning and pulling but the machines wouldn't separate.
I'm (we're) sorry if this was misunderstood as an effort to destroy other robots or anything unsportsmanlike. It was simply an attempt of a team with a grossly damaged robot to stay in the game and do the best they could with what was left of their machine. With only a drive base and a broken arm there really wasn't much more a team could do except push balls and run interference.
In any case, our apologies to 365 and any others we angered. Hopefully we can leave any bad feelings on the field and move on. I know my guys love the Miracle Workers team and wouldn't deliberately do anything to hurt them.
WC