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Unread 02-05-2002, 10:57
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Cool a quick question

i just have one qustsion (because i didn't go to nats). were there any chariot races after all of the qualification matches between the teams that were not in the elimination matches? if so, who won?
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Tractor Pulls - Yeeeeee Hawwwww!

With the season officially over, and being seniors and all, a group of us decided that it was time to play. We tethered FIRESTORM 4 and headed outside. On the carpeted test patch, we pulled a single goal containing 6 people and controls (an estimated 1050 lbs.) for several yards before running out of open space. There are plans in the works now (as soon as the crate gets back) to tie FIRESTORM 4 to a friends Mazda Miata convertible. I'll post pics when we do that.
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It's just a matter of getting it to overcome static friction.

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SPEED Rivalries

We had a banquet up here for all our SPEED (Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design) teams. SPEED is a program of Clarkson's which funds all the different teams (like FIRST) our University competes in. Every so often, all the speed teams get together and promote awareness in the community and the University. But I digress...
I was driving last years robot around the room with a tray of cookies on top. The Mini-Baja team was there with their Baja car. We were taunting them with the robot, and they decided to 'leash' it. Unfortunately for the Baja-team, they didn't have their e-brake on. The robot managed to pull the entire Baja-car, and one stunned and confused driver.

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Fluffy pushed about 10 people on a goal around when we got it back home. It was really cool, but there were no chariot races taht i saw
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IT and chariot races

I tethered up IT during finals, actually, and tied a rope around him to act as a dolly. Then I took off and idled around a bit... I was eventually challenged by a team (I think 127, but I'm not sure... a low 100 team) that had been waiting for a competitor. We raced, IT lost... darn gearswitching teams I teased them, though, because IT's motors don't overheat easily in the Florida weather.

Unfortunately, the circuit breakers do. Traveling at a nice 8 fps and coming to a 1 second stop is not something you want to do while riding behind in a dolly attached by a rope. After peeling myself off of our back panel for the first time, I decided it was time to go in.

So yeah... we had chariot races, but I served my time by having to pick the astroturf out of IT's wheels
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last year was different

lat year at Nationals, our robot "low rider" was able to pull 9 fully grown people on the back of our 40lb cart, even though it took us 5 minutes to cross the astro turf, we were able to pull the weight effieciently across the feild, although we were not able to turn and we were about to run into a tree, we sucessfully won the "torque" award!!!!

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