i expected a lot more teams (we heard it was very common for teams to make two).. . .. whoa. . i guess thats why our team got rookie allstar
. .. awsome!.,..
it was a very trying experience with a lot of man hours.. and our practice bot was done in under a week after shipoff (minor touches to the arm). .... and trying to convert our C code into PBASIC (we had a older robot controller donated to us) . . so we could drive our bot around with arm. . .
for the money.. well we are paying the price now. . for we are only at 13/25k to go to the nationals eek. ... we never imagined we would get to nationals.. so we had signed up for two regionals (glr and toronto) <just for the fun and experience.... we are leaving for toronto tomorow .. because that was prepaid (b4 we knew of atlanta) so it would be awaste not to go.. wed only get 10% money back . .. .
... so far our team has used 50k roughly . . . and going to be another 25k so we can go to nationals. . we have some awsome sponsers like GM, convergence, Native tribe of sault mich, LEGO, etc.. so we thank them muchly . . it still amazes me how our team mentors managed to get a lot of that money considering we didnlt have a robot at the time and that was our rookie year, but now it is slightly eassier cuz we can say were going to the nationals.
i should start a thread of how much cash each team had..