Posted by colleen - T190 at 03/19/2001 6:32 PM EST
Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.
In Reply to: Re: Interesting. . .
Posted by Fred Agnir on 03/19/2001 4:26 PM EST:
if the robot fell over in front of us, we could keep pushing them anyway (in most cases in LI it wasn't that we were 'tandum-ing' with other bots as it was the case they couldn't get over the bridge on their own power so we were pushing them).... but we did have the problem in UTC that we had gone over first and the robot behind us fell over.. we couldn't get the angle to push them off.. so we only got the score of a couple 'bots in the endzone, big and small balls unfortunately...
We learned our lesson.. and despite our speed, we take the back in two-robot crossings so we can always clear fallen robots and toggle the ramp for the next team..
