Back to Defense for a minute.

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Posted by Scott England at 04/28/2001 3:40 PM EST


College Student on team #401, The Hokie G.U.A.R.D, from Virginia Tech/MCPS and Virginia Tech/VBEP.


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Posted by Andy Grady on 04/27/2001 8:11 PM EST:



Just some more support for the idea that some robots have brilliantly designed defensive capabilities. My thoughts go back to a certain round in the tournament in 1999. Featuring the alliance of 122, 47 and the honey well iron eagles (forgot the team number, it was around 80). In our first round in the tournament, we came up against Gunn and another team, and that year Gunn had these massive and powerful arms, which may have served other purposes, but they worked quite well to be placed over the basket of another team, keeping it from being raised to 8 feet. The round I recall so vividly (I was human player on team 122 at the time, so I had a ringside seat) featured 122 and Gunn slugging it out for posession of the puck. As I recall 122 and Gunn got entangled, and in the following tractor pull, Gunn was pulled off the puck, and one of the chains was pulled off of 122's drive system, yet the puck was now pinned on the side favoring Gunn, and in that grudge match, Gunn's arms shredded Chief Delphi's basket, which then needed to be amputated. So the while our two teams were battling Gunn, Gunn's teammate was free to put up enough points to take the first round of the tournament.
I also wanted to mention that cause 4 members of team 122 are now on team 401, including the driver and human player from that match. I thought it was kinda funny that Gunn, Delphi, and several former members of 122 were all brought together on the same alliance this year. We may not have won, but I gotta say I think we had the best cheers. And in closing, congrats to Gunn for having the best hair this year, and congrats to delphi 47 for perpetually having one of the coolest drive systems.
~Scott