Thread: How do you feel toward you robot?
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Unread 05-03-2006, 01:19
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Re: How do you feel toward you robot?
Um...well, I'm an alum, but 1073's robot was somewhat subpar. We graduated almost our entire team last year (80% of the team is freshman this year), and there were some power struggles within the team this year, so we ended up building a robot that barely worked (it broke in 5 or 6 out of the 9 matches).

That said...by some crazy, I mean INSANE good luck, we still ranked 11th and grabbed the 6th seed. It was pretty surreal...and it gave the newbies a taste of the playoffs.

Still...I mean, we're a 4 year old team, and we've been to the finals every year, so I guess I can't complain. But I don't know if we've ever built--or even tried to build--a really dominating type bot. We usually just build a variation on a plow, because of KISS. And only in 2003 did that work really well, because we could herd balls better than anyone else and our two human players had unheard of accuracy.

So I'm gonna keep in touch with the team and see what they continue to do. And OP, I feel your pain about your last year in FIRST. If you help try to start up a new team somewhere, it helps ease it.

--Petey
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