[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Match 64 was to be our final Qualifying match, and it was with 103, and I've been dying to play alongside 103 for years. So the match starts, our Autonomous goes and the robot stops like usual, and then a little bit of smoke starts coming from the robot. A little bit of smoke turns into a lot of smoke, at which point the match is called. I ran onto the field without hesitation and turned the robot off and open the cover as more smoke came out. We began frantically looking for the problem (still on the field) and I see that two of our PWM Cables have shorted together which caused them to burn the insulation off of the wires. Luckily, due to the setup of Philly, our head pit guy (aka Pitmaster) was standing within yelling distance of the field, and I got him to run back to the pits and grab a handful of PWMs. I rewired the bot, in the most quick and nasty fashion I could, and we went on to play the match. We won the match 5 to 3. Most people saw the smoke and figured that our robot was toast, but some quick thinking saved it, and a win.

Oh man, your win in that match was amazing. I have been wondering for quite a while now why your robot went up in smoke. I was also surprised to see that the E-Stop button didn't work (I have this memory of your driver jamming it and yelling at the refs...)