Thanks Wayne - If you have a party I'll come.

It was really sad - we were on the waitng list, But I found out on April 4th, that we got in - The team was on Spring Break, so they didn't find out until the 8th - The logistics of getting everyone drug screened (A requirement for Foothill students) going out of state - tickets, Hotel accomodations, permission slips, rearranging teacher schedules, etc. just made it impossible.

I think it is amazing our designs are so simliar - we don't have a go home device, and our robot is simple - four motors and one pnuematic system - but it deploys two arms as it moves forward, snags two goals moves them into scoring position, and then we deploy a brake plate that lifts the robot off its weels and transfers the weight of the goals to the plate - it worked fairly well in practice, but we were heavy and had gear stripping problems with the Chippuas. We only got the robot to run well in four of the matches and we lost them all because of unfavorable alliances.

Did have a great human player - sank 6 out of 10 from extreme range into a moving target on three occasions. Sad - oh well - with a little more practice I thenk we would have been a Beatty Beater. I wish we were there only to show that a team with limited technical resources can be as competitive as the 'fancy' teams. (wait a minute - we already proved that in 2000!) -

I expect the Raiders to carry on!