pic: Team 980's arm hitting the stack at 2 seconds on clock

[DougHogg]

Originally posted by Gope
Wow, thats fast, faster than Beatty even, but you might be careful with it, our auto mode hits the boxes in 2.75 seconds and Beatty was around 2.5..In the quarter finals at the Mid-West regional we caught their arm on our way over the ramp and flipped them over in auto mode rendering them useless for the rest of the game, be carefull you also don't become the victim of a very fast very low CG robot.

We were just watching SOAP108's video's of Beatty (Team Hammond #71). (Finally got Windows Media Player working on my Mac but had to reload the movies every time until just now when I finally found a way to download the movies.)

The "Beast" looks very fast. In fact in the videos, it looks just as fast as our arm, and their swing is concluded faster. It would be another interesting match if we wind up competing with them. Of course, one of these days we will be allied with another arm and that would be interesting as well.

We watched videos of Team 16 also. Amazing how you scream around that corner! If it isn't a trade secret, how do you do that? I would love to see your matches in the elimination rounds, but I couldn't find them. If the elimination rounds for the MidWest are online somewhere, I would love to hear about it.

Anyway, thanks for the forewarning. We haven't tipped yet and it would be nice to continue that trend. Hopefully our arm would glance off you and bounce up, since we hit higher on the stack than Beatty.

See you in Houston. I think it's going to be very interesting this year.