New Competition! Bear Brawl 2008

[Roger]

This came at an excellent time in the off-season -- to show the new people (students as well as adults) the end of the process really is as exciting as everyone says it is, before they get into the grind of the build season. How that six weeks (and pre-build preparation) makes it all worth while. I'm coming back next year, maybe even with a team and a robot.

After helping with the field reset/robot wrangling aspect, I've devised a new game for those of a mechanical mind. I picked up more things between matches, enough for a "name that part" game. I have to make special note that there were no ones and zeros left on the field -- programmers know how to keep their programs stuck together!

I agree, John. There was one match towards the end that three of the four robots just stopped at least 15-20 seconds before the end of the match, and the fourth was limping along. Maybe it was the batteries, but it is a tiring game.