How fast is fast to get on the hill?

[mjd547]

St. Louis was great. thanks to all the teams who helped us the whole way. thanks to team 936 and 476, our final alliance partners who did a great job and should be extremely proud.

we had a very reliable auto. mode. it took about 7 seconds to knock down ALL 29 bins. we knocked them all down 5 out of 8 times during the qualifying rounds. once, team 45 beat us to the hill with a very fast and effective auto. mode. another time, we lost our auto due to our human player not getting back to the mat on time, and once more when our arms didn't deploy, but thanks to cory, our driver, and amy, our operator, we managed to do great and be consistent the whole time. also our backup drivers, kreig and zach did a teriffic job along with our human player Jess, and mentor, nick. over all we were very successful at St. Louis with a final ranking of 9. we also won a gm industrial design award. I would also like to congratulate the winners, team 171 and their alliance partners.
BBS (team 16) had the fastest auto. (about 2- 3 seconds to the top and another 1-2 seconds to knock down over half the boxes), and the fastest bot, with excellent drivers. there are many other teams that did great and many more that helped us out during the competition and we thank them.