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2008, we walk in, spend all Thursday night providing a weight and size loss program for our robot. Such a mess that night. Friday came along and our work paid off, I should say, we paid for our work. All metal we cut Thursday night fell into our control board and slowly fried it all day Friday. our robot nailed into the center post, bent in our ball handlers, it took all of our pit team to unbend them. Our robot wouldn't drive at all half the time, and we put so much of the stress on our programmer while the mechanics were trying to keep up with the repairs. Finally got it to work Saturday after we realized it was our control board, not our program.

Things happen like this all the time. Like you said, there's always a plus side. Just got to look for it. Our robot that year had an amazing autonomous. We took it out of the crate and it ran and knocked 2 of the balls off of the overpass first time through.