Your Worst FIRST experience

[OneAngryDaisy]

My worst experience would probably be this past year's regional.. (that is, our first regional)- we also had a bad scales misfortune.. When we shipped we figured we might be 5 pounds overweight, but at our first regional we weighed in over 15 pounds heavy. What makes it worse is all morning long our pit crew had waited around the pits because our controller wasn't working (we practically owned teh innovation FIRST guy all day long)- we went through countless wiring changes and board changes until it was determined something wasn't updated (I myself never got involved with electrics) Anyway, the inspectors asked to weigh our robot midday just for inspection, and we found out we were over 145 pounds. By then it was around 7:15, and pits closed in 45 mins... most of the other teams were gone by then, so we had massive space to work. It was an incredible team effort, and even the 'spirit' kids were spotted drilling out wheels. We rushed to the weighing station, at around 7:57 and weighed in at 129.8.

Next morning we come in and promptly go to weigh again. 130.1... we somehow gained .3 pounds overnight, so some more drilling and removing of parts occured.. To make it worse, we didn't move in our first few matches thanks to the same board issues, and our first 5 matches were useless. I've never seen our team be that down, ever, it was truly depressing. All we wanted was a fresh start at our 2nd regional, and we did improve there being selected 5th...

from the down low to the top (losing 15) to the down low wasnt easy. especially for a 5th year team who had NEVER experienced anything like this..