PNW Trial Day Today

[Rick TYler]

Today was the test day for Seattle area teams. Six robots showed up out of ten teams in the area, and had a lot of fun plus pizza and cookies. The Titan Robotics Club (#492) sponsored the event and I am EXTREMELY grateful to their volunteers. We had a full-sized tournament area complete with pits with tables, carpet and wooden barriers.

I won't comment on the robots much except to say that they are all ready, or at least this close to being ready, for the Portland tournament, and that "Wooden Thunder" from Team 1294 was lookin' good. I also might note that the only broken wooden component today was not from our 'bot. Our condolences go to the team from Sealth High who had a tetra bracing thing snap, and props because they had a new one installed in about 20 minutes.

The engineering level in our little sample of the PNW tournament was very impressive. We had a pneumatic grabber, a spinning tower, a scary tetra spiker, a slightly-less-scary spiker, and a couple of forklift-style 'bots. I can't wait to see what the other 35 teams have built. Unfortunately, no one had a holomonic drive or omnidirectional wheels.