Gracious Professionalism

[SGopwani]

Let me start out by saying that our team has one Sportsmanship/Gracious Proffesionalism awards the past 2 years, and we are more proud of these then any number one ranking our championship we could ever attain. Our team attempts to hold this priority over all others.

In the 2000 year, our robot was intended to go under the bar, pick up balls, run them to the troughs, hang, etc. Being 30 pounds over weight, we lost the hanging and balling mechanisms, and soon realized that our robot drew to much current to drive in our high gear, and we were stuck at some few feet per second. Our new strategy became to pull teams off the bar, and push teams off the ramp. We won every single match at nationls with this defensive strategy. Yes, we were trying to stop our opponents from winning, but in a legal and legitimate manor. Some robots are faster, some are stronger, some are more durable. All of these features should be considered when building robots. It's all part of the game. It's unfortunate that robots get thrown around and broken, but rebuilding your robot in 10 minutes between every match is half the fun of the competition!!!!

I have not read all the posts here, but this is my 2 cents on the topic.