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One other reason I don't like direct head to head
Posted by Scott England at 05/30/2001 11:28 PM EST
College Student on team #401, The Hokie G.U.A.R.D, from Virginia Tech/MCPS and Virginia Tech/VBEP.
In Reply to: Good idea!
Posted by Carolyn Duncan on 05/30/2001 7:00 PM EST:
Thanks Carolyn, and good observation about how we'll complain about things anyway : )
one other thing I wanted to point out against direct robot to robot competition, with robots slamming into other robots, mechanisms break, and no one has a good time when that happens, Also, with what, 60 % growth, there are huge numbers of rookie teams each year, and rookies are notorious for fragile mechanisms (I confess to excessive use of zip ties and epoxy for everything from motor mounts to holding pins in place) With regionals like VCU, where half the teams attending were rookies, robots slamming into robots would result in piles of parts, and a huge number of innactive robots, which is hardly how you inspire highschoolers, I'm not saying all rookie teams have fragile robots, but untill we all get a little experience (and in some cases even after we have some) things can be overlooked and subjecting robots to the jarring of robot going against robot will break even some well built pieces. Ok, I'm done preaching for the moment. Just some more thoughts of mine.
~Scott
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