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Beware the Bomb Squad
Most robots at the St Louis regional had ineffective autonomous modes. My team was slightly better than average when our dead reckoning worked correctly, which was less than half the time. When things went well, we hit the wall in about 6 to 7 seconds and took two or three columns over with us.
The fastest robot, by far, was Team 16 Baxter Bomb Squad. They got to the wall in 2 to 3 seconds and took out 3 or 4 columns, consistently match after match.
And then there is 547. Their robot isn't any faster than ours, but if it gets there first, it sends the entire wall to its side. A truly awesome sight.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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