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Originally Posted by ErichKeane
This happened at Portland this year. They showed up with the kitbot. The SWAT kids and a bunch of other students spent all of Thursday building this robot, which actually ended up doing pretty well.
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I was one of those SWAT members, They showed up weighing under 65 pounds and didn't even ship the robot, they just carried it in to the competition. I was waiting on them to hand them their schedule of practice matches and when they finally arrived I saw that the batter connector wasn't connected to the battery.
I asked them how it was supposed to run and the student there said that it ran great if you connected the motors directly to the leads of the battery...
The mentor had only brought 3 students because he read that was the maximum amount of students allowed to compete.
Thanks to an insane mount of help from Volunteers, local teams. I'd have to look back at the pictures to see which teams exactly were helping, I know 997, and 488, and the team across from them in the pits, this was a high number team, three thousand something, the name and number are still not coming to me. After many hours and more than a few trips to the machine shop they did end up competing and winning the rookie inspiration award.