Update 11

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

Just to be clear, the play that we made last year of having our alliance partners form a stack before the match was completely legal, and specifically identified as such by a Q&A asked during the season (asked by another team). We did not bend the rules in any way, shape, or form by this move.

After this happened, FIRST reversed their decision and said this was no longer legal.

It was a total jaw dropper when it occurred and made me realize anew how important coaching/strategy/and continuing to play the game is and how it can affect the outcome.

It is one of the defining moments that I still think about from 2007.

The Thunder Chickens mobile machine shop is another one. Excellence on wheels.

[thefro526]

I remember seeing the video of Wildstangs alliance and though zomg that's a pretty cool way to guarantee 30 points. I like how they specified the legality of the '07 controller so now most vet's will have a spare.

[catsylve]

It is amazingly cool to share the field with teams like Wildstang and the Thunderchickens. They were really graceful to us as a rookie team last year and made us feel at home. Actually, the little plastic chicken trophy we were given by the Thunderchickens is our teams favorite piece of memorabilia. (AND it squeaks! )

The effort that Wildstang went to in helping to get films made for the Blue Alliance has benefited a LOT of teams.

Make no mistake, these are some of the teams that make up the backbone of FIRST and their creativity on the field and off has benefited a ton of kids. That's what is important.

[Richard McClellan]

I'm a little surprised that they didn't have much follow up to the IR board issues that were mentioned in Team Update #10. There's a link to the master code, but no instructions on how to download it to the actual IR board.

Our IR board did experience the symptoms described in Update 10, but we were able to reflash the firmware after reading the posts on CD about it. But shouldn't these download instructions (with an ICSP cable) be documented on the FIRST website as well?