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Originally Posted by Ebolagirl
So that's what happened to y'all. I was wondering. It seemed like a lot of people were having chain issues this year. I know we popped a chain almost every match until the quarter finals, then we fixed it. Aww... I was sad when y'all weren't out there because I wanted to see that.
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Yeah, Murphy's Law (which we've battled all year) finally got the best of us. In the quals, even though chains would pop off, we still had enough power to get around. If you recall the one match where our bot (by some freak accident) tipped on the side, was bumped back over, and tried to push up the ramp, we were running on only 3 of 4 chains. Even at 3/4 power, we nearly managed to push another bot up our ramp. We finally fixed the chains by sliding our trannies, and adding heavy zip tie idlers to them.
After alliance selections, I got together with 1902's programmer and put together that autonomous to shoot straight accross the field, because I alone couldn't get it to work. Not sure what went wrong with the code we put in, but for some reason we could never get out of autonomous and back to operator control, hence what happened in quarters. We finally got it fixed during QF3-4, but the field guys for 1902 were getting pressure from their team in the stands to call a replacement. Despite everything finally working properly, they called for the replacement, and that was that. Kinda sucked, but like I said, we still had a blast.