Coolest Robot Trick of 2001

[Elgin Clock]

Can I nominate my own team?

I don't want to toot my own teams horn but.........oh yes I do! But, during our last off season mini comp, we managed to pick up the stretcher and push it between the wood beam and the railing down the center of the field, then we followed it over with our robot and pushed it into the endzone. The whole room lit up with applause from a newly discovered play. We got this idea because with our arm configuration that was originally used to push the ramp down, we could also use it as a forklift. The nly two drawbacks from the first time we did it was that we didn't lift the arms up enough when we got past the center divider and we ripped up the carpet. Oh yeah then there was the other snaffu,
as the weight of the stretcher, along with some other factors actually broke half the teeth off the one of the gears in the gear box. oops.

Anyways if I can not nominate my own team, I'd have to chose the Bobcat Robotics team (I think) This play was during the New England regionals. I think it was them who actually had a ball in their claws but could not get it on the goal while it was balanced. With little time remaining, they decided just to get the points by going in to the endzone. But, because of the weight of the ball at the end of thier extended claw they backed into the endzone on two wheels and the claw and ball in the air, and when they hit the endzone they imediatly hit the stop button and the robot swung around and the final position of the robot was that the robot was on two wheels, the arm was fully extended, and the ball was outside the field on the claw, over the bar holding the robot up. So in the end of the match the only things touching the ground was the two wheels in the endzone and the ball outside the playing field zone. But they got thier endzone points cause the robot was not touching the field outside of the endzone.

Hmmm... Me thinks a picture would have described both of these plays alot better!!! I'll try to find some.