The Most Spectacular Falls of 2010

[byteit101]

at Pittsburgh in one of the seeding matches, 1114 grabbed onto the bar, and started pulling themselves up in the cool way that they do, but they weren't fast enough, and the match ended when the were about a foot away from locking on, which cut their power, and they fell down and hit the floor.

[EricH]

This isn't one from the tower, but it was pretty epic.

Arizona Regional, QF3-1 (if I recall correctly) ended with team 60 mostly on top of a flipped over team (don't remember who, might have been 3194). It was one of those "how did THAT happen?" moments. Amazingly enough, no penalties from that set of QFs--despite the teams playing like they were in a New England regional and on defense.

[Rick TYler]

How about this one?

[BJC]

Originally Posted by Bjenks548

Don't worry about the damage to our robot, it was a quick fix. And thats the reason we were crossing zones lol, you guys are too good at hanging. Also we didn't have our hanging system at kettering lol. Thanks for the compliments, but you and 67 had the best robots there.

Good I'm glad, also thanks for the encouragement we are going to need it at Troy... los chickens (as I'm calling them) will be there.

[gvarndell]

The Chesapeake regionals saw a nice fall -- I believe it happened yesterday.
A robot winched itself up and looked good.
Then the entire lift mechanism broke off and the robot hit the floor hard.
If anybody has video of it, please put on youTube or somewhere.
I'd love to show it to some friends.

[The Lucas]

Originally Posted by gvarndell

The Chesapeake regionals saw a nice fall -- I believe it happened yesterday.
A robot winched itself up and looked good.
Then the entire lift mechanism broke off and the robot hit the floor hard.
If anybody has video of it, please put on youTube or somewhere.
I'd love to show it to some friends.

I think you are talking about 272 in the Quarterfinals. It was a very loud snap. They landed on their wheels so rest of the bit is probably OK. Whatever doesn't kill them, only makes them stronger for Philly Watch out!

[Vermeulen]

I'm not sure if this counts as a fall or not, but when 2530's wheel fell off in a match, and they could still keep driving and righting themselves when they flipped, that was really impressive.

[raffi383]

Originally Posted by apalrd

There was one robot at Kettering that had this flimsy arm that would sometimes fall off if it didn't catch the tower when it unfolded. That was funny.

Are you by chance referring to FEDS 201?

The arm is designed so that the hook disconnects at the top and the arm falls back down once the winch cable starts to pull. This keeps the arm from looking like a pretzel.

There's a video of it here from one of the Kettering matches: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roches...168364?ref=ts#

We hope to not be in the running for the Most Spectacular Fall of 2010.

Raffi

[dekker120]

We had a pretty interesting fall... it was on the practice field... what we failed to realize before we started lifting was that the cable had wound incorrectly and was stuck... so we made it almost to the top.. and our robot fell off of the tower... fun part was... when we fell, one of the spokes on our drive wheel collapsed.... fortunately we had a spare...