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Re: teams who can balance from off the ramp..

Posted by Chris Hibner at 03/16/2001 2:39 PM EST


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.


In Reply to: Re: teams who can balance from off the ramp..
Posted by colleen - T190 on 03/15/2001 11:03 AM EST:



We balance 2 goals from off of the bridge by ourselves. (see the picture below). We seeded horribly at WMR mostly due to the worst luck I've ever seen. Between qualifying and elims, we had 11 matches (all of which we were supposed to balance the goals). Out of the 11 matches, we had only 3 opportunities to balance. Out of the other 8 matches, 5 times a robot flipped over on the bridge blocking it, 2 times the bridge came off of the 4x6 when a robot crossed it, and the other time the partner team that was supposed to drag the goal to the other side lost a tank tread and burned a motor.

During our three opportunities, we dumped the goals once (drivers didn't check the balance light before backing away so the goals weren't balanced yet), we accidentally hit the stop button as we were backing away, causing the goals to not count but they were balanced, and we balanced successfully and they counted the other time.

I just want to point out that ultimately, we bear the responsibility for the bad luck. Some of our robot's features weren't working properly so we had to rely on teams to do things that they weren't fully comfortable with. However, over the 3 day post-competition period, we got everything working so we should be good to go at the Great Lakes Regional. Now that we have everything working, I'm just hoping that we get some good luck on our side.






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