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Originally Posted by JackN
One member of the team from U of T-Austin who was also a mentor on team 2158, whose name I never caught, came and talked to 494 and 70 about their robots, I am sure he talked to other teams as well.
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The member of the UT Austin team that you refer to was actually me! I definitely enjoyed the opportunity to see the top 20 teams in Michigan, though I agree with some of the other posts that it was difficult to find time to check out the FRC teams, because we were very busy working on our robot. I still managed to find a few hours during the weekend to go and see all of the robots in the tent, and watch a few matches, though I didn't have time to keep track of how the teams were actually doing in the scrimmage, but that was okay.
The demonstration would have been better if the IGVC officials had done a better job introducing the competition more formally. Most of the college students there were not very familiar with FIRST, so I'm sure it seemed like the scrimmage was nothing but an invasion of space. On Monday morning at the opening ceremony, they did introduce it by saying they hoped everyone had gotten a chance to see it, but by that point, the FRC scrimmage was over and all the teams had gone home.
Overall, I was very impressed with every robot there, all having strong scoring mechanisms, many with crab drive, and most of all, seemed very reliable. It makes sense since it was an invitational to the top teams, but it was still impressive.