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Posted by David, Student on team #269, BruQuest, from Oconomowoc High School and Quest .

Posted on 3/8/99 9:39 PM MST


In Reply to: Team 71 - Beatty Hammond posted by Dan on 3/8/99 7:47 PM MST:



Hi
Well, yeah, Team 71 built a very impressive robot to me. Their system of
picking up floppies is really unique (and Mike here above me did a really
good job in explaining it). And they climbed on the puck either using the
pole or just by driving on to it.
BUT I think they have some downsides, too. First of all they sometimes had
problems with accidently picking up the wrong floppies because once their velcro
thing gets a hold of a floppy it just runs into the basket.
Another thing that I though about is that you could just try to move your
robot above (or onto) their floppies so they can't pick them up with their velcro
(a little weight should be enough)
And finally they are not unbeateable especially when they don't get a very
good partner. Our team happened to be teamed up with the "new apple corps" from
Appleton, Wisconsin (yeah... the only two wisconsin teams as an alliance ;-) and
we played vs team 71 and I don't remember the other team. First it looked like we
would lose since Team 71 just picked up their floppies and then grabbed the pole
on the puck and pulled it over to our side of the field. But then once they raised
their robot on the pole we were able to push the puck to the other corner again (in
the last seconds of the match) and both we and Appleton climbed onto the puck....
436 points or so ;-)
But nevertheless.... Team 71 won the Chicago Regionals which definately shows their
strength. And their robot really seemed VERY impressive to me! Great job Team 71!!
CYA
David