my sophmore year (the year I became designated driver lol)
our team was also in conflict...
we put together 2 frames on wheels...to test our driving abilities
there were about 6 of us that wanted to drive, so the mentors kept setting up side by side obstacle courses and challenges for us to negotiate...
there was also a box with a sensor on each side, designed to have no more than an inch clearance on all sides of the robot, and you had to park perfectly in that box at the end of each round...
it came down to me, and one other student...
our FINAL CHALLENGE was to negotiate an extremely hard obstacle course that included ramps, slaloms through tetras, and the dreaded "parking box of doom and all things evil"...in REVERSE...BLINDFOLDED...with nothing but a mock "mentor" to tell you where you were, and what you needed to do next...
needless to say, I smoked my opponent...haha
mainly because I had a vex kit at home, and I could never figure out how to program teleop into it, and my motors would always turn out backwards lol...so I had been driving in reverse for a long time before this challenge
I only hit 1 tetra, and missed the ramp a few times
after that, each year, I have been unanimously voted designated driver by the team haha
and again this year too
