pic: PNW - Semifinal 2.4 - Oops.

[sciencenerd]

This has got to be the most embarrassing moment of my FIRST experience (and I've had some pretty embarrassing ones). I'm the driver of questionable intelligence in purple who apparently went dyslexic in the last 5 seconds of the match... I had just disengaged 1540 on the right side of our homezone (keeping them from interfering with the lifting process, although in hindsight I could have pulled out of that significantly earlier) and didn't really have time to make it back to the empty ramp anyway, but in my haste to pull away I looped around and hit 1595 which was already on the ramp being lifted instead of simply untangling myself from the whole mess.

The one small consolation I have for this complete driving failure is the fact that the final score was 32-0, so unless I was able to miraculously make it to the opposite side of 488 and get seated correctly enough on the ramp for them to initiate the lift in the last few seconds of the match, we would have lost even without my interference.