[russell]

So that makes two teams now? Congratulations to those teams, I am impressed.
But seriously, FIRST calls itself a "robotics" competition, yet only two teams so far have managed to even come close to accomplishing the most vaunted element of this years game...... I do have to say I was also *very* impressed by 492s performance last week in Portland. Their autonomous was awesome! I was the leader of our drive team and pit crew and also our programmer, so I was occupied during autonomous, drive, and pit time, but I do know that when they were on our alliance in a practice match I watched their robot drive out and grab an autoloader tetra, then come back and place it perfectly on the corner goal. Plus they won the regional. In any case congrats to any team that does any tetra handling in autonomous!