'My Favorite Part was.....'

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Posted by Joe Ross.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #330, Beach Bot 2000, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA/JPL & J&F Machine.

Posted on 4/15/2000 11:34 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: 'My Favorite Part was.....' posted by Chris Orimoto on 4/13/2000 6:17 PM MST:



My favorite match was also with the Gila Monsters (64) and the Hawaiian team (368). It was a seeding match and we were paired with another team that I can't remember the number of. Our robot and the Gila Monsters both took a dash for the other sider. They tried to come over and steal our black ball, but for the first time our drivers ran the robot at full speed and the Gila Monsters had to turn around and just be content with their black ball. We ended up with a black ball and 1 or 2 yellows and the Gila Monsters had their black ball and a few more yellows. Meanwhile, our parteners and team 368 each loaded up a couple of balls from the human player station. After dumping our balls we went to the bar to hang and the Hawaiian team came up underneath us and broke off a piece of their robot but were firmly situated on the ramp. The Gila monsters were going back and getting some more balls which they unloaded in their trough and then went to hang. Each team had 2 black balls and they had 5 more yellows than us. Our partners were able to keep the Gila Monsters from hanging for the last 45 seconds of the match, but in a last minute dash, the Gila Monsters almost pushed our partner off the ramp. It ended up 28-28 tie with our team winning the tie breaker because we we hanging. A close up afterwards showed that our partner was on the ramp by only 1/4'. We survived the last second charge and ended up finishing the seeding matches undefeated.

The best part was that the Hawaiian team later chose us as their partner for the elimination match and we had a great run and ended up finalists.

Joe Ross
Team 330

PS I hope the Hawaiian team gets a chance to travel to Florida next year. They are by far my favorite team to hang out with. And where else can you find a team thaqt gives away 40 pineapples.