FIRST Rule Changes

[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.