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Unread 23-03-2003, 21:14
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Half the time at the Central Florida regional, I was trying not to make it back in 10 seconds. If I had, our half-baked Autonomus mode would have been ugly
Besides that, the only thing I did that was outta the ordinary was making sure my pants were pulled up...next time im not forgeting a belt

One other note: For anyone watching the regionals via webcast or Nasa TV, have you noticed a supreme lack of creativitey(sp?) in box placement? With our aformentioned auto mode, we used our boxes to the extreme, and it seemed to not be in a way anyone else did...maybe i just missed it. Someone speak up!

btw, team 108 soap has all or almost all of the UCF regional on their site, and its awesome! http://www.soap108.com/2003/movies/fl/
*Check out match 72 for some amazing work by 180 and 179 that, sadly, still didn't win it for us, but was a blast to carry out*
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Umm.. how many different ways are there to place bins anyway? I mean.. not much you can do really..
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Mainly, theres the dull, 4 stack by both players, often not even placed well,(IE, about 5 inches from the side, even though the side offers support when the stacks are hit)
Later on there was more 3/5 combos, some 8s, and a few with 2/2/4 or somthing close

Basically, we used our stacks to throw off our opponents auto modes, and it worked greatly. I reallly didn't see alot of that with many other teams
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Mainly, theres the dull, 4 stack by both players, often not even placed well,(IE, about 5 inches from the side, even though the side offers support when the stacks are hit)
Later on there was more 3/5 combos, some 8s, and a few with 2/2/4 or somthing close

Basically, we used our stacks to throw off our opponents auto modes, and it worked greatly. I reallly didn't see alot of that with many other teams
My ritual with making a four stack was to make unintentionally overexagerrated movements while lining it up for precision, then to sprint back to the pad to barely clock in every single time.

I would jog in place and swing my arms to get ready and loosen up. Scott (Gaterunner) and I (the human players of 180) took a lot of pride in our well-placed stacks...most of which worked beautifully. The only time our blocking stacks couldn't pull through was against Heat Wave.
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On 461 we have several strange traditions pre competition.

First of all we used to have 'the lucky hammer' which was a small aluminium hammer that one of our mentors made in one of his manufacturing classes at purdue. Basicly we had a system of passing the hammer between certain people and placing it on the robot in certain ways and rubbing it a certain number of times...its entirely to complicated to post on here. But it worked for us...and we one Ford Sweet repeat 2 years ago doing out rituals...then we lost it somehow on the way home from michigan...and we haven't seen any sign of it since.

<EDIT> Also thanks to Sweet Repeate 2 years ago i have been known to randomly shout "7 in the goal, none on the floor" over and over really loud in the pits and before matches. That was my first time down on the field during competition and since i was the big tall guy on the team who understood the game i got nominated for human player, and i think alot of the other teams assumed i was a good human player since i was big so i ended up loading the balls into the goal for every match including the finals that day...and in the finals our aliances coach was screaming at me "7 in the goal! NONE ON THE FLOOR!!! NONE ON THE FLOOR!!!"</edit>

Last year the human player and i came up with a 'driver handshake' which soon the rest of the team was doing so to prevent ourselves from being cooler then everyone we added a whole serise of movements and choreography to it so that other people cant do it as easily. So now there is the Operator/HP Shake and the Team handshake... everyone who is near the field or staging area before a match has to do the driver shake to everyone else...and then we all put our hands in and do a '1,2,3 *shout something*' That something has been everything from 'go nuts' to 'WBI' to '461' to 'WHOSAFUSSAWHASSAWHOATAWAT?' which i made everyone shout in cleveland this year cuz it loosened us all up.

Before matches i almost never talk to people who aren't on the field team, i really like to psyche myself up and get in a zone of pure robotics action...i've been known to yell at team mates before matches cuz they try to get me to talk...or i am screaming for emergency supplies for last minute fixes.

Right before its our turn to go on, our base driver john usualy asks me "should i do it now?" and when i give him the word he charges the pneumatics system with our tank charger, then cool our motors with some compressed air and the robot is taken onto the field. As operator and the designer/builder of our controls its my job to set everything up and i go through and check to make sure every plug is connected atleast 4 times before every match, then i put the modem up, plug in the radio...check the plugs again, make sure the voltage is good on the battery, check that we have power, and then make sure that my LED goggles are ready to go for the match.
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My ritual was making sure I didn't trip or something. I would also get started up by pacing on the pad.
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