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FIRST is made for contact
Posted by colleen, Student on team #126, Gael Force, from Clinton High School and Nypro.
Posted on 5/1/99 10:50 AM MST
In Reply to: Re: Ponder the Principle posted by P.J. Baker on 5/1/99 7:00 AM MST:
You want to play.. build a robot that can handle it is what i think. Over the years we've had robots be attacked, pushed, shoved, tipped several matches in a row, and all our bots survived... FIRST is a contact sport, although graciously professional in the way it will be done, some robot's going to go down..
so.. i can definitely agree with Mr. Wible and i too thought TKOs robot looked to be built for fighting only.. but i can't say that i wouldn't have loved to have a chance to play a match against them... the way i look at it.. if two robots are going to collide, normally it's the one going after the other that will sustain the most damage.. and so if that robot can handle it.. so shouldn't the other one be able too..
as for the robot arms that tipped..i saw it happen several times, esp in a few matches we watched in chicago.. their arm is built for scoring, not tipping, and if it happens to work for both, then congrats to them for building an arm that can do all that... i was esp impressed by team #1s capabilties in that regard.. watching them in chicago, we were sure they would end up on top.. and they earned it well in florida.. in fact, we lost to them in the first elimination matches... they tipped over our alliance partner with their arm... and i think they have a great robot..
in a nutshell.. i'm not being mean or anything, but you've got to build your robots tough cause FIRST is a be nice more than a play nice game... and if in the shuffle something gets broken or bent, that's why you should have spare parts.. that's what pit crews are for.. i like FIRST at the level of competition it's at and think that's a lot about what makes it fun.. there are more scratches, dent, hunks of plywood and other material missing from our machine this year than any other year i know of... and many robots in turn had the chance to put them there, but it wouldn't be the same without them..
..i know my grandma would be proud if she saw the way we played and the way the competition ran this year, how about yours?
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