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Posted by Keith of team #131, CHAOS, from Central High School sponsored by Osram Sylvania.

Posted on 3/6/99 12:31 PM MST


In Reply to: Burning rumors posted by Mike McIntyre on 3/5/99 11:19 PM MST:




So wait... you guys didn't burn down Cobo Hall? lol...
someone actually thought you guys set fire to a building? If someone was serious about that then that is just sad... this is a fun educational game... not a terrorist conspiracy out for blood... lol
And someone complained about 5 or 6 extra hours with the robot? There has been 6 long weeks to work on it... that's what... 1008 hours? what is 5 more hours going to do? Just for putting up this site they deserve 5 more hours.... Rumors are getting out of hand... everyone should just relax and enjoy the competition.... No offense to anyone who came up with the rumors...
- A laughing Keith


: RUMOR Cobo Hall in Detroit catches fire shortly after Delphi puts on an exhibition; possibly a connection...?
: FACT An entire day went by between our exhibition and the fire: the only thing we burned up was a Victor when some metal flakes somehow found their way in through the fan opening.
: RUMOR Chief Delphi and the other Delphi Teams got an extra 5 hours to work on their robots.
: FACT How we wish that was true! (We could have really used it) Unfortunately, the robots were all crated before 9PM, with permission from FIRST, so that a demonstration of what we're all about could be made for all the SAE Convention to see. From those 4 extra hours you subtract the drive time in heavy traffic, the looking for parking, loading all of your pit supplies into a trailer, unloading all of your stuff, waiting around for the Teamsters to load/unload crates, waiting for the field to be set up...etc. I estimate that we may have gained an hour of time with the robot, but I'm sure the Delphi teams that came from Flint, Kokomo and Saginaw actually LOST time with their machines. None of us with Chief Delphi really wanted to go: the time could have been much better spent in our own facility: all our resources would have been handy and our drivers would have had far more time on the machine; we put in the 16 hour day because we thought that it was important to let engineers and business leaders from across the country get a look at a FIRST event, not because we were looking for some kind of an edge.