why sooo many bad robots in 07

[hayakuneko]

no offense to any of the other teams out there, but my team actually had some problems and we made it out fine. It was late in (i think) the fourth week and we still hadn't figured out a final robot design. Luckily we pulled it off and we did pretty well under the circumstances.

anyways, what I was getting at was what people before me had mentioned. Robots aren't exactly "bad" they just don't function as well as others. I know it may sound kinda corney, but we all are winners. Building a robot in six weeks is a huge accomplishment and i'm surprised at how many teams have succeeded in at least getting moving robots, but I would have to say that time management is key and there will always be a certain factor of "luck" in building a robot.

it's like my friend said (when we were talking about my team's lifters), the way we lift is an art because we originally never tested this idea and it just began working at the competition. it was not science, because through science we would have figured out the statistics for each lift and it would have worked only that certain % of the time. In other words, we were lucky in being able to do what we did at LA.

just my 2 cents.