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Posted by Dave, Student on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW.

Posted on 4/7/99 4:33 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Our team revealed posted by Chris on 4/7/99 12:49 PM MST:



Ok, only 2 weeks until Florida! And I just have to say, despite who-ever went to multiple regionals, things are going to be WAY different in Florida. I know that this despute has been going on for some time now, and I have to say that what are we all doing this for? I know I'm in it to have fun, and what's the fun in concentrating SOOO hard on making your robot better so you can go and creame the pants of someone else? I think alot of people have lost what this competition is for, and that's to have fun while learning. I know that killing other teams in the competition is a really nice thing to do, and I'd love to be able to do it, but I'm accepting my team's robot for what it is, despite how good or bad we do in Florida, and I plan on just going and having a blast in Florida! From the looks at most of these posts, most of the people are out there to murder and kill.

This is my 2 cents worth on the subject.

Dave Hurt, Driver of Team 308, The Monster



: :Are you telling me that there is no such great engineers at TRW to compete with the likes of Beatty the Elder and Beatty the Younger? You know that there are. FIND THEM!

: Of course I had to respond to this one in a little more detail, so here I go...

: I honestly think we have a very good team this year. We may not have showed it a Great Lakes, just like you didn't show it at Chicago. We had a lot of functionality on our robot that just wasn't working correctly there that we couldn't get going in the time allotted. But let me warn everyone that everything appeared to be working correctly before shipping to nationals!

: I actually went back and looked at the film to see what our scores might have been had we been working properly. What I mean is, we tried to do something and weren't successful because we weren't working properly. Had our robot succeeded when we made these attempts, we would have averaged 441.3 QP per match, good enough for 7th place (better than Beatty, in fact).

: I know, 'if 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts', blah blah blah and all that crap, and this is just pure speculation, but be warned: we're fully functional now.