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Bigger they R harder they fall
Looks like a well designed and built bot. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it impervious to other well built bots. As the Miracle Workerz found out last year, when u try to take on everyone head-on, u will meet ur match. MOEhawk (MOEv2002) could completely dominate 70% of the robots, leaving them no chance to score. About 25% could beat us if chance favored them, and less than 5% were too fast or strong for us to beat in 2 of 3 matches.
The problem comes when u try to hold ur bot in a scoring position for a long period of time, u have essentially declared open season on ur bot. Teams can and will do anything to get u out of scoring position including brutally destroying ur bot in BattleBots fashion. Get used to the cheer of the crowd when ur bot is mauled, cause seeing the big guy go down is the biggest crowd-pleaser. It wasn't just us either, everyone was amazed when Spam's Fluffy slew the Beatty Beast in the finals. I hope have a good sense of humor about it or u will become bitter, clamoring for DQ's for intentional damage. If u do well holding ur ground, every team will be looking to destroy u. That is y we created the MOE Mauler award to reward teams which graciously and professionally tore us to shreds (without malice). Teams even used broken pieces of our bot to get picked for the eliminations.
The Best Advice I can give: Start preparing a well organized Pit and a quick efficient Crew.
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Electrical & Programming Mentor ---Team #365 "The Miracle Workerz"
Programming Mentor ---Team #4342 "Demon Robotics"
Founding Mentor --- Team #1495 Avon Grove High School
2007 CMP Chairman's Award - Thanks to all MOE members (and others) past and present who made it a reality.
 Robot Inspector
"I don't think I'm ever more ''aware'' than I am right after I burn my thumb with a soldering iron"
Last edited by The Lucas : 20-02-2003 at 00:34.
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To put it simply, its clearly become this. The teams that can score a lot, do well. Rather shocking, isn't it? It doesn't matter if you're a shooter, dumper, power dumper, gravity dumper, spitter, flinger, dunker, shumper, barfer, dropper, or whatchamacallit. Points are points. - Looking Forward [more] 
20-02-2003, 00:29
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