[Jay Shah]

Originally Posted by Karthik

As for simple to repair, we had our spare arm on the robot and ready to compete in 15 minutes, just in case the ruling was overturned.

Ok, I know I'm a little off-topic here, but I want to recognize what Karthik said here. Read it, read it carefully.

I want to congradulate 1114's team for being such darn good designers! In my 5 years doing this I've seen my fair share of robot damage, some as major as a ripped arm, and I've never even thought that it could be repaired with such speed. (In addition to the fact that their arm moved the rack!) Just take a second, and think about what an insane feat of engineering that is!


(I'm not going to take an opinion here, not because I'm not supposed to, but because I think I'm rather emotional about both 1114 and 48. We lost to 48 in GTR after a lot of defense, in which our robot broke (I'm not blaming anyone). And 610 and 1114 have had a lot of history over the past 2 years, playing together, playing against each other. So I have lots of strong feelings on both sides, I don't want that to get in the way of an interpretation of this particular incident)

Just wanted to point out the awesome engineering/design work.