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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 1/6/2000 7:39 PM MST


In Reply to: Jury Duty posted by David Kelso on 1/6/2000 7:14 PM MST:



I think that Bill Beatty had jury duty during WEEK ONE of Ladder Logic.

In my opinion this is the least competitive robot that Beatty & Team Hammond ever built (though still a heck of a machine!).

For those who don't know, they were #1 Seed at the Nationals their first year (Hexagon Havoc). They were very competitive & just ran into a few bad breaks on Saturday. In my opinion very easily could have been battling for the Title that year.

The next year, Torroid Terror, they won Chicago & the Nationals without hardly breaking a sweat (I still wake up a recurring nightmare every one and then in which I can see Son of Beatty putting that fully loaded topper on the goal in under 15 seconds and then going on to form tic-tac-toe after tic-tac-toe after tic-tac-toe...
...I tell you, it was frightening how good they were that year :-)

The next year, Ladder Logic, was the year Bill had jury duty during Week One. They had a machine that could hold 5 balls! It was awesome, but it was not as competitive they had been in other year.

As most folks know, they were back in form for 1999, Double Trouble, winning the Midwest & Great Lakes Regionals (with help from DaimlerChrysler-OSM Tech of course) and going on to the Semi-Finals at the Nationals. Beyond this, they won the Rumble At The Rock (though I have to admit that I thought that Raul, Dan & the Gang from WildStang had them in that Final Final Match -- oh what a difference a 1/4 inch can make, eh?).

Beatty Beatty Beatty... Long live the king!

Joe J.