[ConKbot of Doom]

The only problem we had with the auto loaders was that on thursday, we were picking up tetras without being in the loading zone, and no one said anything to us about it. That became an issue on friday in the first match. From one side, I say I don't care, if were not in the zone, but loading go ahead and let the other teams mess with us, we can deal with it. I understand where they are coming from though, safety of the attendants, we had a 6' arm (5' beam and a unfolding hook) that would have to be out horizontally when loading, get rammed by another bot, not a pretty picture for the attendant.

Thats ok, we have a human player that is awesome, we have come into the zone with the arm sticking out in the most akward of ways and she twists and turns and limbos and never got us a penalty once. Our arm backdrives with the tetra on and once she put the tetra on and got out of the station underneath the arm. I nearly crapped myself when she did that, but she didn't touch it... So the human player is working out even better than the autoloader, I'm definitely happy with that.

I don't think I saw too many autoloaders knocked over at the Chesapeake regional, but then I was in the pits a lot, so that isn't saying that much.