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Inexperience

Posted by Mike Carron at 03/10/2001 10:11 PM EST


Engineer on team #343, Metal In Motion, from Hamilton Career Center and Square D Company.


In Reply to: VCU low seeding matches...
Posted by Joe Johnson on 03/10/2001 12:18 PM EST:



Chalk it up to plain old inexperience. The field of 67 teams at VCU included 33 rookie teams. Many of them made the typical rookie mistakes. We were the only team (343) that had experience at another regional (KSC). This helped us somewhat, but we still struggled to pull off a strategy with any consistency. There is simply nothing you can do when one of your alliance partners falls over on the bridge or breaks down on the same. The bridge was also suspect, It didn't behave like any other bridge that we have dealt with. It could balance only .25" off of the playing surface. This helped some teams, but hurt others. It was so tight that we had a hard time balancing a goal on the bridge from the playing field, which is our bread and butter. There were many two wheel drive robots that struggled just to get over the bridge let alone pull any weight. Leading me to believe that many of the teams obviously didn't test their design on a "legitimate" playing field before going into competition. I'm baffled at how low the scores were. We wound up winning the finals with a high score of just 212 points versus the 490 points that we scored at KSC. But guess what, It was still a blast!! See you guys at the nationals.
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