What was your teams worst expierence during competition?

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Worst FIRST experience (and from it, perhaps the best) was when my dad's truck and Trailer were stolen last year. Despite all that we lost, we got the truck back and I felt like the tiniest little village full of people from around the world that day. So, perhaps not the very worst.

Worst on field has got to be back in Lunacy (2009) at Lansing. Got picked into the finals. We had been having problems literally all competition with our drive train, tightening and loosening the chain between every and all matches. We just could NOT figure out why. During the finals (2nd match, if I remember correctly) our drive train finally failed. Stepping back for the first time all weekend, we quickly realised what happened.

We had built the drive base as one separate piece, and then added the shooter on top of it. There wasnt a single bar that ran the whole length top to bottom. Because of this, the drive train was no longer square, and the 'top' half had shifted in the corners by nearly 2 inches front and back, both sides.

In that same year, we found out to build the robot smaller than max dimensions. Oh the nightmare as we took the deadblow and our mentor, setting the robot on its edge and having him stand on it while we beat it with the hammers.... A funny sight, but what a nightmare. Never. Again.