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Originally Posted by Jeremiah H
We had two quite memorable plays at Pitt this weekend-
First one was when we lost our right side drive chain and our awesome driver (John, the "baldheaded beast  ") still managed to get us up onto the ramp, allowing our alliance to score that sweet 25-point bonus that won the match for us.
The second and most interesting was when we were in a huge hurry to get up onto the ramp towards the end of the time and there was a poofball sitting at the base of the ramp right in line with our wheels. Rather than maneuver around the ball, John asked for low gear and gunned it up the ramp. Well, the ball turned our bot sideways and there we were on the ramp, the low side wheels touching the carpet and the other, high side wheels were being held up off of the ramp by the poofball. I am thankful that our CG is so low or we would have tipped then, but with a 103 lb. drivetrain, we were fine, anyway, John gave the bot a twist with the joysticks and all at once I saw our bot spin, the poofball disapear, and our bot more or less jump onto the ramp. I found out when we went to take the bot off of the field that in the process of spinning, the ball had gotten shoved between one of our go-cart tires and a crossmember of the frame (about a two inch space) and smashed/swallowed/shoved up into the bot. When I found it, the ball and been smashed down to about half of its original size and was shoved up between the top of our frame and bottom of our circuit board. 
Any toughts/comments? 
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I remember both of those. Those were some amazing ramp runs, really nerve-wracking to watch. We had an interesting ramp experience too, in one of the semis I think. We were over a bit too far, last bot on our alliance to try for the ramp, and we were caught just a bit, like two inches, on 1370's bumper. A last-second (literally) move by our driver got us up there, but I honestly didn't think we were going to make it. That won us the match, too, if I remember correctly. (That ramp always scares me, it's like it's just daring you to try and get up...)
Another fun one was in match 5 of Friday. It was a two-on-two match, two robots didn't make it to the field. Us (1629) and 1727 against 1370 and 365. We knew we'd never beat them unless we played some darn good strategy - and we DID. The best part was the both of us, neither of us very good pushers, holding MOE back together on our end of the field until time was nearly out, then both of us getting onto the ramp to win the match.
My absolute favorite play, though, was in autonomous mode of one of the elimination rounds where we had to do a re-start: Our autonomous mode had been shoddy all weekend, lighting problems as well as problems with the actual camera; we got it working and sank 5 of the 6 balls we shot in autonomous that match. It was an amazing feeling, I'll never forget it.