[Lee Reid 3136]

Originally Posted by McVey

Hey there, I'm from team 339 "Kilroy" and am excited to give your team a massive thanks for not only trying out our ramp, but successfully climbing it! It seems like every time we found a team who was willing to try our ramp, they broke down somewhere. For a while I was beginning to worry that our ramp was cursed or something - lots of people wanted to try, but they all went through some horrid robot or field failure before finally getting the opportunity to.

All of that said, you are indeed the first to climb our ramp specifically and at the two regional competitions I went to (Washington DC and Virginia) I didn't see this sort of strategy ever work for other teams, so we may perhaps have a first? I'd really like to hear some confirmation on this. On the bus ride home my entire team was geeking out about that round and wanted desperately to get in contact with you guys to say thanks for putting our hard work to use. You guys were excellent teammates! We're still trying to collect photos from the event and I'll post once I can find a good one with our two robots in there.

Thank you guys! We really, really wanted to go up a ramp bot. Major props need to go to our driver Kevin. He hit your ramp perfectly. I've looking pretty closely a some of the pictures and he had to. If our wheels were about inch farther apart, we would have been drive on the metal guard rails of your ramp and we probably would have fallen off.

This accomplish is as much yours as it is ours. It was your bot, your ramp. We were just in the right place at the right time. I don't know if you know but originally team 1095 was going to go up the ramp but they got caught on the wrong side of the field at the finally.

It was an awesome experience and both of our teams should feel pretty awesome about it. On a related side note: I still don't completely have my voice back from yelling after the end of that match.

Here is some pictures: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...150#post940150