pic: Practice Matches

[CD47-Bot]

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[sanddrag]

Yay! There's our robot, Heather, making her way to the top of the ramp. She is the one with pink and green flags and pink bumpers and wearing a blue light. You know, I don't even think our team snapped an action shot while we were there.

[Ken Leung]

Oh yeah! I remember that robot. We call it the crazy pink robot . Just kidding

You guys have a really really fast robot, and very effective at the game. You are the only robot I've seen who pushed a bin under the side barrier. Good job!

I never thought I would see a bin deform like that.

[Johca_Gaorl]

You mean you can get a bin under the bar? But Dave Lavery said you couldn't! I wonder if you could get a penalty/dq for that...

[sanddrag]

Originally posted by Johca_Gaorl
You mean you can get a bin under the bar? But Dave Lavery said you couldn't! I wonder if you could get a penalty/dq for that...

You sure can get a bin under the bar; but only if you hit it hard enough. The bin was sitting right in front of the bar and we made a full speed run (9-10fps) with our robot Heather (129 lbs) and smashed into it. The tote literally just exploded. We didn't really care about the tote, we just wanted to get ourselves under. There was no penalty or DQ. At the AZ regional, the refs were pretty cool about stuff like that. I know deep in their hearts they loved to see parts flying and robots crashing.

And 696 SHATTERS another tote!
-Anouncer

[tenfour]

Yup, that was a cool match. It was in the finals and we really had to get under the bar. Unable to even see that portion of the field, we just went for it. Those totes really splintered nice.

I look forward to LA...there is many more boxes to shatter.

-Tenfour