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A Summer Trip (or, Greg Mills Can Cook!)
Posted by Ken Patton.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 8/4/99 4:54 PM MST




Several members of our team just got back from the Ozark Mountain Brawl, an exhibition/competition put on by the Baxter Bomb Squad. We had a blast - the Bomb Squad really did a nice job hosting the event. It was a two day event, with some 'all-star' matches and robot Olympics type stuff on Friday and a tournament / exhibition with both one-on-one and alliance matches on Saturday.

They had a cookout on a lake on Friday night (Greg makes a pretty good burger!), and a party at a farm on Saturday. It was a good combination of competition plus vacation. Mountain Home is a small town in northern Arkansas with ~10,000 people in a resort area. A long one day drive from Detroit.

The final matches between HOT and the Bomb Squad - one on one matches - were pretty awesome. They went the full three matches, with HOT eventually winning. Puck position was important, because in the one on one matches both robots usually make it onto the puck. HOT got pretty creative in denying a Baxter 3X a couple of times. One time they dragged the puck away from them, and another time they retracted their folding wheels to lean their extended basket into Baxter's to keep them from maintaining 2 inches off the ground. And Baxter usually was much faster in loading 8-10 floppies and going to the puck!

Both HOT and Baxter spanked us, although we did manage to beat Baxter once when we (luckily) wedged the puck in their human player station. The fourth team there was DaimlerChrysler+Avondale #33, and they, um, beat us too....oh, well, wait'll next year...

Thanks Bomb Squad for a fine event - we hope you do it again next year. Thanks to HOT for taking our robot to Arkansas in your killer truck (we wouldn't have made it without you!).

The REST of you teams in the midwest (or wherever) should put this one on your calendars!

Ken



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