Most damage sustained

[Mschmeh144]

In past years, matches have had robot on robot contact.

So, damage had to happen. What's the worst your bot has ever been banged up?

[K-Dawg157]

Last year, our robot was pretty mush completed (except a few programming issues) and the drivers were practicing. The driver drove into a corner of a brick wall in the hallway, and dented the robot a good 2". We were banged up before it was bagged!!

As for this year, our bot hasn't sustained too much damage, the closest scenarios were tipping over while practicing (the driver was testing the tip-ability and bent one of the arms). The only other was a close call in a competition when one of our arms almost got stuck in another robot's drive system... We almost lost an arm, and they almost lost a chassis. But all was good.

[Kevin Sevcik]

2003, Stack Attack: Game was a giant wall of tupperware totes on a raised center platform with ramps on both sides. This was in the IFI controller days with serial cables for tethers.

We ended up moving shops first week of build to some new sponsors. Some of those mentors thought they knew more than they did, unfortunately. We had a practice platform with just one ramp and a cliff on the other side. One of the new mentors wanted to "test" something and enabled a tethered robot with buggy auton code. Robot took off, hit the ramp at full speed, and flew off the cliff before anyone could kill it, ripping the tether port off the IFI controller in the process. Bot was fine besides that, but it was an expensive mistake.

Said mentors also talked everyone into a robot that was split and pivoted in the middle for "suspension". In one match, something happened and one half of the robot got flipped. We maybe be the only FRC team to end a match with half our robot upside down, but zero actual damage.

[IronicDeadBird]

Last year at Utah our robot got its super structure torn and bent to the point where it was inoperable and a safety hazard to field. This was during eliminations if I remember correctly and we had another regional after that.

Here is the best I could find for comparison sake
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...be&oe=55805174
Here it is post match! (Oh hey that's my arm)
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...b1&oe=558CE540

Compare this
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...b439016f41c2ce
To this
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...fc&oe=55870C33

And at the end of it all...
I still have no regrets about how it all turned out.

[Koko Ed]

In the first finals match of FLR 2008 our robot's elevator broke off.
Zoom ahead to 7:54 to watch the carnage.

[Loose Screw]

How can anyone forget Bedford Express's first match of 2013? A fall from the top of the pyramid which resulted in 1/3 of their electronics fried and their shooter being bent to hell. It was great to see them go back into matches after only missing one or two.

http://youtu.be/AiHcLvFYA1c?t=2m10s

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Saw the damage but it wasn't at 8:26 can you confirm that is the right time?

Sorry. 7:54.

[MrTechCenter]

Our 2012 robot sustained the most damage. The front bar was repeatedly hit in the front and on top, causing a very odd shaped bend that we had to hammer back so it would be straight several times. The robot fell off of the bridge and onto its back once during regional season and once during the offseason. The turret/shooter completely fell off of the robot 3 or 4 times during the 2012 Silicon Valley Regional. And yet, it still survived all of that...

[Boltman]

Our blocking bot from last year was repeatedly banged into at full speed by an unnamed (as to not embarrass) powerhouse team trying to prove to the audience they could score on us defending the low goal we wasted about a minute of their time and they never scored in that goal... still have a scar on our body from that encounter..and our alliance won that match...was awesome.

[Mschmeh144]

Originally Posted by Loose Screw

How can anyone forget Bedford Express's first match of 2013? A fall from the top of the pyramid which resulted in 1/3 of their electronics fried and their shooter being bent to hell. It was great to see them go back into matches after only missing one or two.

http://youtu.be/AiHcLvFYA1c?t=2m10s

Wow, that fall looks horrific. Poor little bot made it all the way but couldn't hold on. Why did it start smoking at the end? Did it catch fire too? Or was that just electrical smoke

[Pauline Tasci]

One time another's robots claw went into our robot and ripped out most of electronics.
Let's just say that was not something I never want to fix again.

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

in 2013 we fell from the pyramid when an opposing robot hit us, breaking 2 wheels and their respective planetary gearboxes, and our inch-wide screw that held our elevator mechanism

[Ichlieberoboter]

Nothing much has happened to our robot, but team 1816 from Edina, the Green Machine, had their robot fall apart with the top part almost falling off in one of their last matches at the Lake Superior regional in I think qm 90. They were really good actually and ended up being 4th (?) alliance captain. They did not win, however they won Engineering Inspiration so they will still be attending nationals.

[James1902]

Not my robot, but I still have nightmares on behalf of 1251 from when their 2012 robot lost it's head a bit: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/37778

[Koko Ed]

The worst damage I've ever heard done to a robot was 801 and 1592's robots back in 2013 on load in night for the Orlando Regional. Both robots were destroyed when a pickup truck slammed into the back of their trailer and pulverized 1592 while 801's robot was decapitated. Fortunately the student and mentor were unhurt but they and their teammates were obviously devastated.
Then they got over it and built competition ready robots that made the elims in one night.
Inspiring stuff.