In St. Louis this year, we ran into some horrible luck. First, we spent the entire day Thursday rebuilding the robot (having a 65 lb withholding allowance is just evil...). We finally got on the field first thing Friday, and made (and performed in!) all the rest of the matches. Not too bad... except we were competing a man down almost every match. Someone wouldn't show up (i know in one case, one of our alliance members had a chain break two matches previous and couldn't get it repaired in time), or would show up but sit dead on the field (another match, an alliance member's drive team walked off the field right after it started - their driver station battery was dead). In the end, we were ranked 34/35... but that makes getting picked so much sweeter
