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Re: Continuing the discussion...
Posted by Mike King, Other on team #88, TJē, from Bridgewater Raynham and Johnson & Johnson Professional.
Posted on 2/25/99 8:39 AM MST
In Reply to: Continuing the discussion... posted by Joe Johnson on 2/24/99 9:09 PM MST:
Well, we were one of the more famous robot breakages. (but only for the Rumble people) But breaking our robot had many not so obvoiusly impacts. Many of your teams, just like ours, got out to other schools, (high schools, midddle schools, junior high schools) to drum up intrest, and to show them what were doing. Your impact isn't quite as great when you stand up there and say something like:
"Well, this is our robot. (points to it) It used to work, but it broke. Any questions? Good, you can watch the video tape to see how it once worked"
A nother thing that really sucked was our statehouse sponsered and event for First, (they even had Woodie show up). It was very depressing to stand there around your table, and explain how your robot worked, with no robot there, especially with your congressman asking the questions.
So broken robots not only remove you from competition, they remove you from many other events.
Another thing, (here we go again)
I think there is a big difference in the tipping that WILL occur this year, then the kind that happened two years ago. You don't have teams going out with the stratigy of "If we can tip them in the first 30 seconds, we own the game" and having them design that function specificly into thier robot. And that makes a world of difference.
(Mr. B, your's was different, it was part of another function)
Mike
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