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Re: The luck stops here . . .

Posted by Jon, Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Mass Academy of Math and Science and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Posted on 4/27/99 12:45 AM MST


In Reply to: The luck stops here . . . posted by Daniel on 4/26/99 6:25 PM MST:



: I had been wondering about why T-45 pulled their robot out of the second and third rounds of the final match, so I went up and asked them. That's when I learned about the tragedy. I'm not posting this to belittle the achievements of the national champions, for they obviously earned a very high placing. I just thought some of you might be as curious as I was as to why they stopped using their ‘bot.

: It was the first round of the final match at Epcot and Delphi Kokomo was in the runnings for #1 with their alliance partners. In a devastating battle over the puck, the wires to their sensor port were torn from the connector. All that remained unsevered was one red wire. The mess would never be fixed in time. It was devastating.

: The moral? We all get a little unlucky sometimes...

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: -Daniel

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little streaks of bad luck hit everyone at sometime.
our robot had been behaving extremely well and much more reliably than at the regionals but that all came to a halt when during our our quarter-final match against Aces High & Friends, we suffered a small yet devastating blow with a portion of our lower pole clamp.
One of two hardened steel plates that had been brazed together simply broke under the various stresses of the moment. It did not break along the brazing either, it was a manufacturing defect that just showed it's ugly face at the worst possible time.

congrats to Aces High & Friends on a great win!

Jonathan
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