[keehun]

Team 2502 was graciously picked by Team 93, a regional super powerhouse, and team 3009, a regional powerhouse rookie. If you took away Team 3009's number, you would probably guess that they were a long time veteran.

We got in to quarter finals. We were 3rd seed alliance, facing some good robots, but like we were just "perfect" alliance (a power dumper by 93 that could like outscore all three combined, a power defensive bot by 3009 that was a HUGE box with a tilted top to deflect rocks and pin to no end, and us with a decent shooter that was okay at everything.) and I mean the 6th alliance was good (Robettes, 2177, and two more bots) and we were facing them.

Then the match started, and because of an autonomous screw-up, and paralysis to half of the robot (a jag that controlled the left half of the robot had its wires just pop out), it cost us the round by like 10 moon rocks, which we could've easily scored had we not been dead the whole round (filled trailer) and had we been able to go pin/help out & score.

Then the second quarter finals match started. We were really hyped up that we were gonna be able to play a good match.

Nope.

Amidst the CRAZINESS between Quarters 1 and Quarters 2 trying to fix all the screwiness we got during first quarters, we overlooked one thing: tightening the T-Slot fasteners on our 80/20. Of course, at the most convenient time, our robot's chain that controlled the intake of the moon rocks ran off the sprocket, thus allowing us to drive, but not do anything with the actual scoring...

But we had a memorable experience working with such great teams and learning what we can from our devastating mistakes..

We're still happy where we got as a second year team, especially from our first year, last year.