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Re: pic: OUCH!

Congrats to you guys for doing a great job. The media coverage was pretty cool:

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Originally Posted by D&C Local News
The event's sponsors, Haas Factory Outlet and Monroe Community College, want to help local manufacturers groom future workers, Boyle added.

Greg Needel, 21, represents that ideal candidate, said Boyle.

Needel, who finished 2-2 for the weekend with his creation, Tetracide, is a fourth-year mechanical engineering technology student at Rochester Institute of Technology. "Engineering gets boring when you don't have something to work on," he said.
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The double-elimination tournament will consist of about five three-minute bouts per hour — psycho robot on psycho robot — featuring professional and amateur builders of various levels of techno-sanity. Upwards of 75 builders will have robots accepted into the battle, all competing for a cash prize and (possibly more important) the respect of fellow builders.

RIT mechanical engineering student Greg Needel, 21, of Henrietta will be one of them — along with his heavyweight robot "Tetracide."

Although he's been building robots since high school, this is his first violent competition — and his robot is fierce.

"(Tetracide) has three pneumatic flippers each capable of throwing 800 pounds and a triangular wedge design which makes attacks (on it) difficult," he says.

Winning, he adds, "takes a sound strategy, a good design, strong construction and a decent driver."

And even though he's spent the entire summer assembling the robot, he says he's ready to see its possible destruction.

"In a competition like this where it's really one idea versus another, losing is just like in chess," he says. "You got outplayed, but in the end you learned something."
It sounds like you guys did very well, and I was impressed by the amount of media coverage you got. Congrats!
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