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Re: Most Unfortunate Incidents

Hmm - most unfortunate....

Quarterfinals at Great Lakes. Us, Martians and Cat Attack against the Killer Bees, Feds, and Team R.O.B.O.T.I.C.S.

We won hard fought first match against them 72 to 70.
In the first run of the second match, we were up by 30 points when a piece of the field fell off. The match was stopped with 5 seconds remaining and we were told to replay it.

In the second-second match, it was again very hard fought. At the end of the match, one of the opposing alliance bot's bumped us from the side (no more than a normal hit, mind you) and our entire lift system ejected out the front of the bot.

We called timeout and worked to fix the lift. We thought we had it together, we manually ran it up and down, and sprinted the bot onto the field with 4 seconds left in the timeout.

In the third match, the lift went up 2 feet - and then our arm operator realized it wasn't coming back down. We had tied a single knot in the wrong place. He did the smart thing (way to think on your feet!) and didn't move it up anymore. That allowed us to lap. It came down to a last second hurdle and we lost by 6 points.

It was heartbreaking.
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