Divisions 2012

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by Cory

Curie got blown out in the finals. If anything Newton almost won, as they gave 1114 and company their only real challenge in the elims.

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

This is spot on. The Curie alliance made it through the semi-by the skin of there teeth in the worst round ever played on Einstein. The Archmedes vs. Curie matches that year were aweful. 16's swerve stopped working for that round. and 348 got caught on our robot which sucked the carpet into the drivetrain because it was never tapped down over the divider in the middle of the field. Uberbots auton switches broke so their robot never exectuted there awesome auton. HOT and Kilobytes were the only fully functional robots on the field in the second match.

67 caught 1124's arm fabric and tipped over in that second semifinals match, destroying our arm potentiometer. In the finals matches we were manually positioning the arm which was far trickier than pressing a button to go to a set position, and we couldn't even run an autonomous that removed balls from the overpass. Facing 1114, 217, and 148 in that situation, we were toast.

I really want to blame the Curie Curse for 2008, but if I did that I would have to acknowledge that it's perfectly reasonable for others to blame 2010 on it. So, I'll just say I don't believe in curses. Curie will win one of these years!