Blown Away!

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Posted by Justin Ridley.

Engineer on team #221, MI Roboworks, from Michigan Technological University.

Posted on 3/12/2000 10:11 PM MST



I had to post a message on my response to one of the robots at the Great Lakes Regional this year.
I gotta say I was completley and utterly blown away by Cheif Delphi's latest creation. Obviously we all knew they would build an awsome machine, they do every year. But I almost crawled out of the stands and died when in the first match of the finals they sucked those balls out of the blue goal, then slid over and pumped them in thier own. At first I think people thought 'jeez, they can't grab on the bar, what were they thinking'. Of course there isn't the greatest need to grab on the bar when your constantly flying all over the field filling the goal, 6 balls at a time. Then in one match their balls got jammed in their basket, and the crowd was thinking 'Wow, finally a flaw in thier machine, maybe the other team can take this one'. And then BAM up pops the clam shell and the balls just fall into the trough. There were some other really great robots of course, some of which were able to provide CD5 with some decent competition, but I gotta say this robot just kicked some butt. Good job guys, you've done an amazing job. See everyone in Chicago. . . . where I'm sure we'll all be praying to be allied with a certain team.