Scarriest 2003 moment

[AlbertW]

being the third team picked by the 8th alliance.

NOTHING beats the scariness of ALMOST not being chosen.

[SarahB]

Originally posted by Todd Derbyshire
Our team's arm at BAE. It swung (sp?) at everything except for the wall of bins all I remember of the moment was please inadvertently hit the stack. By NJ though the arm was fixed and everything got better

Except in the semis when it went for the judges table .

[Meredith Rice]

Well I am glad you laughed, I found it amusing as well

[Sophey Chan]

Scariest Moments, well! I can relate to these. Lets see, At Regionals, one would be going into our frist match, not testing our auto, or competing in the practice rounds, wondering what our robot would do. Needless to say tipping, was quite a scary though, and we did, darn high CG.


Two, Being the HP, doing my normal stacks, only to have them fall down, outside of the colored carpet, running back in to set them up right, and running out with about 5 second left, tripping going outside of the field, and scrambling back to our pad so our auto will work, much less our robot, which I made it back in time FHEW! I thought my team was going to kill me if I didn't make it back in time, but they were to busy laughing....


In the building process, holding our robot near the chains, telling my tem not to touch the contollers, only to have them nip them as joke, and take off the top of my knuckles, and then trying to hide it from them so they wouldn't feel bad, luckily they didn't see, but dude, when you can see your bone moving, that isn't cool, much less CALMING!


Another scary part, sitting down under a table being sick, having your friend drive the robot at the table full force, only to have it barely stopped maybe a cm away form you by the table top, THANK GOD we were a stacker...


And, just because, one of the scarist moments, was at Regionals. I was walkng outside with someone from OakRidge when they were practicing Auto, and seeing it for the first time go up the ramp in 3 seconds flat, I stopped dead and went "We have to go against them....crap...." But we won that match, pushing both them ad their alliance partner around, ^^


Along with other things, missing parts, missing told, broken wires, ect, liek at Nat's, almost not making check in...(Thankies to whatever team offerd the whole saw (sp?) even though we already had one)

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by Aonic
being the third team picked by the 8th alliance.
NOTHING beats the scariness of ALMOST not being chosen.

Aughhh...reminds me of the agony waiting to be chosen by the first seeded team who'd picked their 2nd team, who picked us

and the agony of that last match

[Alexander McGee]

Ours was defineatelly at the Arizona Regional. We were folding in our "second stage" of our arms, while our pit crew was trying to fix it. One of our students gor his hand cruched in the arm. Ouchie!

Also, at nats. One of our team members (different one), tried to push our 2000 lb toolbox up that really steep ramp, well, to put it simplly, he was in the hospital for the rest of the day.

[Steve W]

My scariest moment came about 15 seconds after our team won the West Michigan Regional. The realization that I would have to keep my word and get my hair cut. Come to think about it, it was when they handed me the second handfull of hair and I realized how bad I had been butchered.

[Redhead Jokes]

Originally posted by magnasmific
Ours was defineatelly at the Arizona Regional. We were folding in our "second stage" of our arms, while our pit crew was trying to fix it. One of our students gor his hand cruched in the arm. Ouchie!

Also, at nats. One of our team members (different one), tried to push our 2000 lb toolbox up that really steep ramp, well, to put it simplly, he was in the hospital for the rest of the day.

So the hand didn't go to hospital?

And *puzzled and not sure I want to know* why was nats team member in hospital?

[Daniel Brim]

Most likely a back problem, pushing a heavy object up a ramp like that can be trouble

[Vincent Chan]

Once, in a rush to get to the field for last call, we had our programmer crop the auton mode out so we only had our basic control programming. Well, he set auton to come on no matter what, on accident, so I had to get back in 10 seconds or else we'd be dealing with some pretty unhappy judges...

I got back in time, and then it didn't do anything for auton... and then it didn't drive after auton. Well, it turns out that not only did he have auton to come on, regardless, but it was going to run for two full minutes.

We didn't know what had happenned until we ran it back to the pits, panicking.

[tatsak42]

When in a match, one of your team members comes dashing over and starts screaming "SMOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at you. And then you realize the whole area smells horrible. <-- (twice...)

When you see your robot flip, the split moment before you realize it can re-right itself.

Seeing a half inch shaft of steel bent so that 2 sprokets... meshed...

[sugargurl]

The most scariest moment for me was at svr during qualifying we got flipped over n we FORGOT the spare part for our scissors mechanism 4 stackin so I was FREAKIN out when we flipped....we had bent some pieces so we had to reshape them in the pit..... But it was all G after....

[Solace]

my scariest moment was in galileo at Nats, just after i realized that not only had i accidentally flipped over our alliance partner (the only flipping we had at nats), but I kinda smashed bits of their robot off as well. whoops.

[Jupee]

I remember many moments holding my breath and just staring wide-eyed at the field, but the only one I can actually remember is when we were at...nats, I think, during a practice round(??) and I couldn't see the clock very well for HP mode. The coaches had asked that I have us skip Aut. mode (back to the mat btwn 11 and 15 sec.). So I thought ten seconds had already passed, but I was wrong, and our robot's arm slammed into the bar backwards. That was when I said oh crap and my drive team gave me the death stare...sorry guys Everything was ok though, so yay for that...

[Jnadke]

My scariest moment ever was actually last summer. We were demonstrating the 2002 robot for the Flag Day Parade. Our team used a tractor-trailer (semi-trailer) that was about 5-6 feet tall. We modified it with safety railing made out of PVC. Well nobody every realized it, but the safety railing was taller than the robot...

Come parade time, we're cruising down the parade route. Suddenly the robot controller starts spazing out as the robot is coasting toward the side of the trailer. I quickly leap toward the robot and grab it (and hang on for my life) as the robot is 1/3 hanging off the edge of the trailer. Any closer before we grabbed it and for sure the robot would have fallen off.

We still joke about it by saying, "The robot probabaly would have fallen off, hit the ground with a thud, and kept on driving!" We won the Motorola Quality Award at MMR.


As for this year, I can't really think of any that were particularly unnerving.