Strangest moments at compititions

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

The first time I saw Dave Lavery zipping around on a Segway.

The first time I saw Dean Kamen zipping around on a Segway.

The first time I saw Al Skierkiewicz and Dottie Skierkiewicz traveling around the pits together on their Segways.

The first time I saw Mark Koors riding his bicycle between the FRC fields at the Championship, slowly.

That reminds me of something that happened last year.... In Atlanta we were waiting for our match behind the black curtain. I saw some volunteers walking by, looking very focused, so I looked over. Dean Kamen was driving around in a smart car and the volunteers were making sure he didnt hit anybody. That was not one of the things i expected to see.

[hipsterjr]

In 2007 on the trip to Florida regional, I had to use the restroom at the back of the bus. My teammates thought it was funny to put their foot on the door handle so I couldnt get out. The doorlatch broke and I was stuck in the bus restroom!!! Worst off, the light was wired to the lock, so when the door was unlocked, the light was off. After 20 minutes I was able to pick the lock with my student ID. I am a mentor this year and I still haven't lived that down.

[smurfgirl]

I liked when we got a small tear in our bumper fabric and stuck a bandaid over it. This was not at competition, but we brought the bumper to the CT Regional as a spare to keep in the pits, and we got some comments on it.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Post what strange moments or interactions you had with other teams during competitions or other times at that, things that you wouldn't expect but would only probably find in FIRST.

At the NJ regional we had these huge massive arms last year (2008) that got ripped off when another team clipped us. After that happened we actually did better and we tracked down the team that clipped us and thanked them for destroying our herding mech and showed them what we did with what was left of it (we had a panel that moved up and down) so we stuck teeth to them since they were now useless. I believe it was MORT....

Before: http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...g/P4070701.jpg
note the arms on the flap that goes up and down
After: http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...g/P4090751.jpg
Teeth

Thanks MORT, if it wasn't for your beastlyness out bot wouldn't have teeth!

Ouch, man now I feel bad knowing we did that.

Sorry bout that if it was us..unintentional damage of course. Long time ago though.

Lol at the story about 1676 though haha

To make up for it, let me know if you guys ever need any help.

[Taran2345]

in the semifinals of the KCR, are robot stopped dead, damaging our hopes at nationals. Our fate was sealed by a fast robot that sole purpose was to rack up points by going round and round. by the way robotcanuck1676, how did you get that eagle scout bar? i am a fellow eagle and would like that to appear for me.

[nathanww]

At a practice match last year, one of our robots had a software crash and plowed through the field barrier in hybrid mode , which resulted in like 6 people trying to restrain the robot and power it down. And this was with a binary that had literally no autonomous code, and the problem never happened again
And at the same event, our other robot managed to go through the plywood center divider, requiring people to run out with duct tape to fix it

[kbaker159]

Our team had an interesting experience last year. During our first (and only) practice match at the Colorado regional, our robot's arm drove itself past what we designed it for, and actually destroyed the shoulder joint. The sprocket was bent, acrylic cracked, chain slipped, c-channel bent, limit switches mangled, the whole 9 yards. We spent the next 2 and a half days of competition trying to get it in working order again. We determined that there was a loose crystal somewhere in the IFI control system, and during the special hybrid mode, it just caused those parts of the robot to freak out. We were allowed to rent one for the rest of the competition, but still had one close call where it did it again before we figured out what was causing the problem. Now I am really glad we have the cRIO, because NI has much higher QC than IFI IMO.

[GaryVoshol]

After FRC opening ceremonies in Atlanta, we have to move the FLL tables back out onto Einstein. I nab the teams in Gallileo queueing to help with the hefty work. Of course, all the VIP's are still milling about, and we have to get these 8x8 tables through. Last year one kid started yelling, "Robot, robot coming through!" Oh yeah, that'll work.

[NorviewsVeteran]

You should have asked the VIPs to help, remind them that they are on the competition floor after all.

[katyrobo2177]

Last year at a mini practice regional before shipping that our team went to our center of gravity wasn't equal when the elevator went up to retrieve a ball from the over pass. It rocked back and forth and just about fell over
i just about shaking and screaming and praying inside that it wouldn't . . . to our relief it didn't

[colin340]

2007 at FLR
On Friday the GRR pit crew and drive team when to get are lunch so we begin walking down a long empty hallway to where are team had the box lunch. And then just as we started down the long empty hallway the spark's pit crew (some, no not all 40 hahaha i love 1126) and drive team started to walk the towards us the tensions grew as both teams walked 6 wide towards each other until the inevitable happen, an epic showdown, it was the greatest nerd fight ever seen in first of course all in good fun and yes we wore are glasses

[Jacob Paikoff]

This happened at an off-season event but it still counts.

At TNT this year during the all-night practice matches 2 of our mentors wanted to drive so we let them. They made it around to try to knock the ball off the overpass. They raised the scissor lift and the robot tipped over and was down for the count. It is mainly funny because during the whole season including before ship not once did a student driver tip the robot or even get that close to tipping it, but the mentors had no trouble doing it.

[clean399]

Let's see mine is back in 07 with Rack n Roll, I kept trying to assure my advisor that when people where bench testing the banebots they were overloading them and we would be fine. Well... we weren't, I remember changing the gear plates in those about six to eight times between both gear boxes, strangely I remember it being fun. We started having races to see who could do it the quickest.

[Dylan Gramlich]

Originally Posted by colin340

2007 at FLR
On Friday the GRR pit crew and drive team when to get are lunch so we begin walking down a long empty hallway to where are team had the box lunch. And then just as we started down the long empty hallway the spark's pit crew (some, no not all 40 hahaha i love 1126) and drive team started to walk the towards us the tensions grew as both teams walked 6 wide towards each other until the inevitable happen, an epic showdown, it was the greatest nerd fight ever seen in first of course all in good fun and yes we wore are glasses

Oh that was so great! It seemed like forever since that hallway was so huge! Although I believe the "fight" your refering too consisted of us all sitting down and eating lunch together haha

[colin340]

Originally Posted by Dylan Gramlich

Oh that was so great! It seemed like forever since that hallway was so huge! Although I believe the "fight" your refering too consisted of us all sitting down and eating lunch together haha

noooooooooooooooooooo
that was after the fight
rember i stole you lunch