FIRST Rule Changes

[ErichKeane]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

Yes, It was us. It was a great regional. We had one of those OMG moments when we developed the shimmy bot.

Sorry for busting up your bot.

Heh, no worries! We were restarting the team that year, so we only had 3 students and ~$700 budget and only our dads as mentors, so we were proud of ourselves getting as far as we did. It was all 3 of our 1st FIRST years as students, and our Senior years, so it was our one and only chance.

Interestingly (looking back) we had never blamed you guys or anyone else for us losing, we went home upset, but blaming ourselves for not preparing better. This is something I think I need to teach to some of my kids next season!

That Shimmy bot was nearly unbeatable, if i remember correctly, you guys won the regional, didn't you? At the time, we were just happy to be able to hang against you guys, we had to do some muscling in order to make it up that step against you and get our hanger on the pole.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by ErichKeane

That Shimmy bot was nearly unbeatable, if i remember correctly, you guys won the regional, didn't you? At the time, we were just happy to be able to hang against you guys, we had to do some muscling in order to make it up that step against you and get our hanger on the pole.

Almost unbeatable... except when up against 190.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nnGGRi-94

Back from the days when defense on 'bots attempting to hang was still legal.

[ErichKeane]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Almost unbeatable... except when up against 190.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nnGGRi-94

Back from the days when defense on 'bots attempting to hang was still legal.

Holy crap that was nuts! I'm glad someone beat them! (sorry 237 ). Ah the days before bumpers! I remember at the NJ regional that there were quite a few broken welds and busted bots!

(Story time, sit down youngsters...)
This was in the time before the regionals had a shop area with everything in them.

At one point (friday I think!?) we were charging batteries and trying to get things fixed/working, and one of the other teams came over to ask if they could borrow batteries/a charger for a bit. At the time we were only swapping batteries out ever 3-4 matches, so we took our freshest battery and tossed it in the bot, and lent out the rest.

They went to the group next to us, and did the same. Finding that strange, we followed them to their pit. When we got there, we saw them with a very bent up robot, attempting to weld their frame back together with the batteries! It was the craziest thing I'd ever seen, they were sitting there using a battery connector on each battery trying to resistance-weld their frame back together!

If I remember correctly, they managed to make just about all of their matches.

[JohnBoucher]

You beat me to it. I was posting the same video. It was a wicked good game that year. The game sure has changed.
The video is a classic, lots of good memories.
I would hope that we get back to games like that.