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Originally Posted by de_

Make sure you have read and understood team update 14.

Today our robot was dead during part or all of 6 out of 8 matches even though it was completely mechanically functional. Twice it was caused by opponent teams robot smashing into the our wall in autonomous causing our laptop to blue screen and reboot and the second time crash on the floor and even after a reboot of the laptop, the robot autostart failed.

Dave Edwards
Mentor - Runnymede Robotics
Team 1310

I think this is a different situation if robots are running into walls so hard that the driver stations are BSoDing immediately without falling off. Velcro isn't going to prevent damage from blunt trauma to a hard drive.