[ErichKeane]

Originally Posted by pakratt1991

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... Another high three thousand something team,) and the machine shop they did end up competing and winning the rookie inspiration award.

Correct! I was with the neighbors to the left (3210). I looked over a few times to see if they needed anything, but there were always a dozen+ people there! I was very impressed with how they did, but more so with the amount of people who helped out. Definitely GP at its finest.