Thread: Long Island Regionals: Results, "Story"
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A ball was thrown, and there was much rejoicing.
Posted by control guy at 03/11/2001 11:57 PM EST


Student on team #250 from HVCC.


In Reply to: Long Island Regionals: Results, "Story"
Posted by Kyle Hill on 03/10/2001 9:26 PM EST:



Suddenly, a ball flies through the air, and miraculously, lands inside the goal.

Impressive perhaps. Luck maybe?

Standing next to two members of the Clakson team on the opposing alliance with one having trouble doing simple math in his head, perhaps due to the excitement, perhaps due to the stress, or perhaps due to the forces of unknown mysterious influences and myself, unable and unwilling to do the math in my head and simply waiting for the score to be announced was a terribly exciting and tense situation.

However, I was fairly certain our alliance would prevail. First of all, it was fated that we could not allow ourselves to be bettered by Clarkson (no offense guys, you did very well). Second, after taking second at Long Island the previous year, I had promised we'd make it up next year. Was I wrong?
I knew we had exceptionally gifted drivers who had been trained by the best (perhaps not in driving or other FIRST related things, but never mind that).
However, the most important thing of all, we did not use wheel chair wheels!
You may think this odd, but our drive system was not four wheel chair wheels run off of the standard drill motors. We had a very well designed track system off of custom gearboxes. Just so this is clear, this is a knock on the use of wheelchair wheels and the drill motors.
Since we must be positive about such things, I will note that, at least it is better than using, say, Fisher Price motors and gearboxes.

In closing, simply, woooooooooo hooooooooooooo!!!!

"HAIL MARY!"
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