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Re: 101 Things I Wish I'd Known Before My First FIRST Tournament

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
Murphy was a genius, the only time you cant connect to program your controller will be in the pits, at nationals, before your last match.
I just had to quote this. Team 1089 at Nationals this year is proof of this if there ever was. Despite all of the random non robot things that went wrong, our cRio died. Thankfully another team let us borrow one they just won and we went to upload the code and our programming laptop died. But our smart programmers backed it up on a flash drive... which they lost... so they had to reprogram the robot on Friday night. There's a whole thread about this somewhere. We ended up losing every match except for the one our cRio died in which we tied... this leads to my tip.

It doesn't matter what goes wrong as long as you have fun. We all thought this was one of our best trips, even though we were second to last in our divison.
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