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Re: Bridge problems!!!
Posted by Alan Federman at 04/10/2001 1:54 PM EST
Engineer on team #255, Odyssey, from Foothill HS, San Jose and NASA.
In Reply to: Bridge problems!!!
Posted by Chris Hardman on 04/09/2001 11:42 PM EST:
: We didn't have so much of a problem with the bridge coming off it's fulcrum. The problem we had was that with all of the use on one bridge they tend to be more loose. In one of the finals matches a ref pulled the goal off the bridge and when the goal was off, the bridge automatically balanced itself. Kind of interesting if you ask me. We also would position the goals perfectly but for somereason with the bridge wanting to go one way, it caused an error in balancing. we managed to over come it and continue. We did not the bridge off it's fulcrum in one of the finals matches at Motorola Midwest Regional. These problems are what i noticed on the acrhimedes field.
I heard other teams (66) complaining on how easily the Galileo bridge came off its pivot - they said it happened to them 2 or 3 times on that field. I saw it happen once when we were playing and it really hurt us (255) but please note the average scores on Gallileo were much higher than the other divisions - so maybe it was also easier to balance? The highest score we had was on Einstein - so who knows if it matters. And about
being ranked 9th and not getting selected - there were lots of teams that should of been in the finals that weren't. Just the nature of the game.
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