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Unread 11-01-2008, 01:16
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Re: How far are teams right now? Behind Schedual?

Well, we have part of the kitbot built.... We're having trouble with the toughboxes from AndyMark, so that kind of halted things there. Our team still can't agree on game strategy and we have several ideas on a hurdling mechanism conceptualized, and a few are pretty fleshed out, but there are a few design flaws in each of them so far. Though for a 12 person team, we're not doing so bad, especially compared to last year.

Everyone who saw us at the Milwaukee regional last year thought it was pretty impressive that we were able to build half our robot on practice day of the regional. Needless to say we placed 48 out of 52. Two 5 hour fix-it windows later, we place 8 out of 39 at Chicago. I think we work well under stress, but I'd like to not have to do that again.
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