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Our 2005 robot ("Low Rider") was probably our best from an engineering and performing in the game aspect. At the regional it was OK but suffered from the tetras getting hooked incorrectly on the arm if they swung too much. So we were about .500. At the Championships we made one little fix and ended up with a bot that went 7-2 and came within inches of winning in the two losses. We were scoring consistently all over the field. It was certainly not near the best robot there, but it did its job very well. Drove well, scored quickly and pretty much never broke. We ended up spending a lot of time in the pits sitting around. Which was particularly gratifying because at the start of that season we made a conscious effort to build a robust robot (following Woodie's admonition) that would not break as often as the previous year's cool looking but not so cool performing robot.