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To understand my worst experience you have know what happened the year before. My first year on the team our robot barely worked at all, we finished like 31 out of 33 at UTC and in the bottom 20 at nationals, that was 2000. But it was one of the most fun years ever.
Then the next year we had a great bot we seeded our way into the finals at UTC getting paired with an all star alliance it was in order of selection
157, 151, 131, 47, 176. We knew we had a real shot at doing good. But then in the first round our robot Low Rider just died on the bridge, the allinace all clocked out with and got like 50 points from the round. After the match we did a functionallity check on the bot, and couldn't find anything wrong, we eventually changed out the radio cable and were back for the next match, where we worked but still lost. It was the worst feeling in the world knowing we'd let our alliance down. The robot never did it again.
It was a wierd fluke.
Thankfully we were in the finals this year and the curse was broken our robot did exactly what it was supposed to do. Guess we all have our share of bad luck.
Chris Team 151
The wilcards
Quaterfinalist UTC 02
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