What was your teams worst expierence during competition?

[FilthyArgonian]

I wasn't there for this one, but in 2002 I think (before 1086 was known as Blue Cheese) our robot caught on fire twice during the NASA/VCU Regional

[DampRobot]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

That mentor sounds like a real winner.

Seconded.

[VexisDarksteele]

What was probably our worst experience was during our rookie year, very first FRC competition we'd ever been to.
We were all psyched and ready to go, eager to take on LogoMotion and all it had to offer. We were excited by the harsher (and larger) competition in comparison to OCCRA. Everything looked great.

And then we got our robot inspected: It was 32 pounds overweight! We had to rip that thing apart in under an hour to get re-inspected without the armature or superstructure. Our robot was nothing more than a chassis with a minibot that kept falling out and nearly getting crushed by other robots on the field for the entire weekend. On the bright side, though, we shaved off the extra weight during that competition, and had a fully-functioning machine by the next weekend's event.

This year, our robot got completely flipped upside-down at IRI, which damaged the shooter's motor pretty badly. Our robot was fairly low to the ground and agile, but because of the placement of the climber, it had a tendency to (as we like to jokingly call it) "do the Harlem Shake" whenever it came to an abrupt stop. So during our final match, the robot was fully loaded and flying across the field at full speed, but another robot intercepted it, so our driver had to stop suddenly. Well... the intercepting robot (from the opposing alliance) bashed into our robot's front bumper as it was teetering back and forth, sending the thing belly-up for the first time.

[runneals]

When our victor 888 burnt closed in the first finals match at KC this past year is tied with when we lost our pneumatics system in the send and third finals match at North Star this past year too

[ErvinI]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VDLWfZ6Yk4

[Answer42]

Yeah. Glad to say I'm no longer working with that program.

[Jeremy Germita]

A few I've had:
2011 San Diego finals 1 when our arm broke out of fatigue.
2011 IRI dying in 2 qual matches due to bad batteries. One of those had my autonomous selector logic fail and throw off a partner's 2-tube auton
2012 Madtown Throwdown. our last qual match had our shooter's banebots P60s lock up and stall out for the match. Both P60s were dead. Used the remains of both to scrape together one functional one for elims.
2013 Sacramento Finals 2 having the cRIO crash on us(but never before and never again. Cause was never truly found.), causing a loss by less points than our average contribution per match.

[connor.worley]

Losing a DSC at San Diego this year and then receiving an already-broken one from spare parts.

EDIT: Also, the 2012 season.

Also, having the GEM gearbox powering our arm in 2011 seize during divisional elims at CMP. (Newton 2011 is still one of my favorite events though)

[Peyton Yeung]

I'd say going through 3 digital sidecars in 2 days at BMR 2011. We couldn't find the problem so we just kept putting new sidecars on. The 4th one is the one that's still in the bot today. When opened up, 2 of the boards look singed and the I forget what the 3rd looked like.

Maybe the finals of championships in '99 but that was before my time.

[Invictus3593]

Out of all the bad things that could've happened, the worst thing was that our robot was deliberately tipped over in one of the early matches at the 2013 Razorback regional, taking us from 2nd seed to 6th seed. Luckily, our robot was welded together really well so nothing broke XD

[MichelB]

Tried to show off during a competition by doing donuts, completely shatttered a gear box...replaced it in 30 minutes though (this was with my old team)

[MikLast]

2013: First year, only thing we could do was climb the rings and play defense.

The climber broke before our first match.
(Still got highest rookie seed though!)

2014: first district event, just after auto we lost comms to the robot, and for some reason it kept doing the command it was sent. a couple times it just spun around, but one time it was going full speed.

To our alliances driver station.
Lets just say we burned that carpet real good.

Our second event, we did pretty well, besides the fact we shredded our gears until we realized we were going to be the #8 alliance captain. we had absolutely no scouting done, as we didnt really expect to become one. Still had a blast though.

2015: first event, placed second seed, had great scouting, got a great alliance, until our partner had a bad battery. also, 10 agonizing minutes of seeing if this counted.

[asid61]

Not being able to move 6/10 matches at championships. We had a really good chance too...

[Dr. Shocker]

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2011roc_qm41

If we ignore the fact that in 2011 year we got second in 2 regionals where we lost to the winning alliance by less than 5 pts, and in both cases a mini-bot decided it didn't want to work, I would have to say this match. During autonomous the uber-tube opened our pneumatic valve, so we had no pressure, and we were eventually able to put the tube we had onto the rack, but that was basically it the whole match. If it hadn't been for that mistake, we probably would have ranked second instead of third. Oh well.

[The other Gabe]

3 different things have happened that all have kinda sucked

1) in 2012, our pneumatics failed after Quarterfinal 1 at World champs, making it so we couldn't deploy our multitool, making our turrent not be able to rotate, making shooting and collecting hard... our alliance had already almost beaten our opponents, and probably could have beaten them if we had been working properly. the opposing alliance was 1114, 2056, and 4334, the winners of our field that year.

2) For both years that the District model has existed in the PNW, we have not been picked for elims, despite being ranked 17th this year

3) to expand on 2014, at some point during the Auburn District event, our electronics started to fail. it wasn't too bad, but we sometimes stopped working for 30 seconds or so during a match (we still managed to make it to Finals as the 6th seed- 3663's- first pick). at DCMP, it was terrible, with us not working for more than half a minute in every one of our matches, and our auto messing up. we finally identified and fixed the problem, but it was too late for me to be able to convince teams to pick us, and we narrowly avoided qualification to worlds. Our robot was probably in the top 5 best PNW robots for that year, disregarding the electronics issues... our method of defense (high speed ramming to dislodge balls) even cause a rule tightening on high speed collisions

The thing about all of these bad experiences, is that only one of them made me truly feel bad (not getting picked this year; many other teams too were surprised)- and even then we still barely made it to worlds, where we then made it all the way to the finals (again with 3663). the other two were learning experiences: Run pneumatics correctly, and make sure all the electronic bits work properly. Our worst experience, honestly, was probably 2013 (like many other teams here), because we focused almost all our resources into a climber that never worked on field