Also, I appear to be getting an aweful lot of negative rep for calling that studiness of the arm of 1114 a design flaw. I am 100% certain if they wanted to devote more of their resources to it they could have had a tougher arm. 1114 was, as a believed before coming to Atlanta and going into the finals(which I did not see much of them in), the best team there. The only possible issue I saw with their robot was a lack of horizontal bracing on the arm(which to me seemed the direction it would be more important as opposed to up and down, which to me looked fine). Our robot had a flaw too, our robot didn't have a ramp and overall wasn't that fast. If I were 1114 and I were going to try to make this robot better I would look at some sort of horizontal bracing on the arm, similarly, if I wanted to improve our robot I would make it have some sort of gearbox to go between fast and powerful.
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Originally Posted by 65_Xero_Huskie
I was on Galileo's field when this happened and a mentor came over and said that 1114's arm was destroyed. I thought to myself that i was thinking this would happen this year. In GLR i remember thinking to myself that their arm is out in the open and could easily be damaged if they were to get played defense on.
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And look, here is someone who thought the same thing as me. *shrug* I really didn't expect all the hate for making my comment on the design of 1114.