Let's See Your Robot's Battle Scars

[xXhunter47Xx]

We got sticker shredding and a paint scuff from a different bot from a bit of defensive contact? I mean that was about as bad as our robot got. I guess we weren't as aggressive as everyone else haha.

[Arpan]

Didn't get any pictures before we fixed them, but our robot had our camera torn off, RSL torn off, pressure relieve valve handle torn off, and multiple .125 aluminum pieces bent by inside the frame contact at lake superior.

[cadandcookies]

Our worst damage wasn't due to another robot, but due to crashing into a wall. We bent the forks on the bottom of our pickup pretty badly. Luckily we brought along a half-dozen extras, because we knew those would break in heavy match play.

[Samwaldo]

We still dont know when during the match or who, but our aluminium square tube frame was hit inwards around 3 inches! Its a 2 tier chassis, and both were. Quite alot of hammering!

We also destroyed 125's cylinder used for opening a catcher (i think) it was bent quite far. We apoligized and still feel sorry. Groton had some tough and especially fast defense

[MrRiedemanJACC]

We lost a roller on our 6" Vex Pro Mecanum in our first quarterfinal match...

http://t.co/qgwDdGYdPZ

[ratdude747]

I'm not sure who did it (I was working field reset), but on Thursday, one of the low goals by the red driver's station at Crossroads took a gnarly hit (see attached picture). It was "fun" getting the box to fit back together (it took some hose clamps to keep the box from springing apart). While it doesn't look like much, consider the size and thickness of the tubing...

What else did I see? Besides 1108's smoked wiring in finals match 1 (and impressive comeback in match 3), I do recall a team letting the smoke out of a 550 motor, prompting the FTA to grab a fire extinguisher (not needed luckily).

Another team that I will not mention had an acrylic motor shield shatter upon a collision, deflating a ball with a loud pop and creating a lot of shards.

Two teams (1108 was one of them) had go pro cameras fall off their bots and get sent for a ride (I bet that made for some interesting footage).

Although not quite a scar, yet another unnamed team used 3 baggies of lead shot, held in with duct tape, as a ball manipulator counterweight... which came loose one match, releasing the baggies on the floor. All 3 burst when hit by other robots, which made a huge mess, like a "marbles on the floor" prank (such as in the Home alone movies or Animal House). The most memorable part: the sound created by the Vaccum cleaner when the shot was cleaned up.

[IndySam]

Ouch!

[brandon.cottrell]

Our later alliance partner 330 gave us this gnarly cut in the duct tape on the side of our loader arm. All of the edges are pretty scratched and torn but this one stood out to me.

There's a little bit of yellow on it actually, and a little more on the side. At first I was worried we hurt 330, but after I found out it was okay we laughed about it later.

[Peyton Yeung]

One of the teams at Crossroads took a huge hit bending the cross extrusion on their AM14U drivetrain. That's almost 1/4" thick extrusion.

[RobotDoktor]

We bent two of our drive base endplates pretty bad practicing without bumpers. Fortunately we have some good bumpers to use now.

Here is what they look like intact:

[FRC3883FRC]

Our intake roller got took a hit and it was a scramble to get all the parts ready for the next match. After we got all the parts back in we quickly got to the queuing and 30 seconds later to the field.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39953?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/39954?
The robot also lost most of the two side ploycarb sponsor/protection plates.

[Dr.Gusta]

Originally Posted by lanna.stars

Same was noted in the Alamo Regional. Gold numbers, numbers being painted on the Thursday with finger paint. The quality control of bumpers is a lot laid back in the States. Waterloo would not have passed those bumpers. Regulations should be across the board. I understand it's week one but something tells me some of these were not all rookie teams...

This frustrates me to no end because during our inspection (rookie year) everything went perfectly. Besides a few sharp edges which were easily filed down there was no issues with wiring pneumatics structure, nothing! Our bumpers were by the book. They were firmly secured 8in around all corners but they were 1in to close to the ground. He made us build an entirely new mounting system for our bumpers the day of. We got our inspection pass sticker as we were in queing for our match. I had never been so mad ever and hearing this makes me so much more pissed off... Rant over

[CrazyMohawk]

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2471 had this happen at Oregon city

[tim-tim]

Originally Posted by lanna.stars

Same was noted in the Alamo Regional. Gold numbers, numbers being painted on the Thursday with finger paint. The quality control of bumpers is a lot laid back in the States. Waterloo would not have passed those bumpers. Regulations should be across the board. I understand it's week one but something tells me some of these were not all rookie teams...

Emphasis mine. The bumper rules have changed slightly this year. The numbers are no longer only allowed to be white per R28.

Originally Posted by Rule Book

R28 Team numbers must be displayed on the BUMPERS and meet the following criteria:

A. consist of numerals at least 4 in. high, at least ½ in. in stroke width, and be either white in color or outlined in white,
B. may not wrap around a corner of the FRAME PERIMETER (for the purposes of R28 a round or circular FRAME PERIMETER has no corners), and
C. be positioned around the ROBOT such that an observer walking around the perimeter of the ROBOT can unambiguously tell the Team’s number from any point of view.

I'm still not sold on the changes to the rule.

[Rypsnort]

I hope at some point my team posts some pics because we had extremely physical defenseless played on us at Lake Superior and have many battle wounds because of it.