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We're really not that mean.
Posted by Andy Baker, Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 4/28/99 7:37 PM MST
I know I don't have to do this, but I feel that we as a team need to explain ourselves a little bit.
A little birdy told me that more than a few people didn't quite like our robot design, and thought that our TKO boxing theme was not within the spirit of FIRST. I heard that various people thought that we designed our robot to only beat up everyone else's. Well, I'm here to tell you, that is not true.
Here was our thinking: we saw the puck at kickoff, and we instantly thought that FIRST wanted more contact between the robots. So, we gave them what they wanted... action. I was suprised that more teams didn't go down this design road.
We never wanted to hurt anyone's machine, we just wanted to keep our opponents off the puck and from raising their floppies.
After we did not do very well in Chicago, we watched the elimination rounds. We saw VERY good basket lifters getting on the puck and playing defense. I thought that was a waste of many good basket lift designs.
We saw our niche. We got rid of our basket design and went for puck control. We wanted to be the team that everyone wanted as their partner in the finals.
Hopefully, we didn't tick anyone off too bad. If so, let me know, and I'll buy you a Coke also.
Andy B.
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