What team was this?

[davidthefat]

I chuckled at their robot, not because it was stupid or something, because it was so genius. I chuckled at the simplicity but yet other teams have not done it. I chuckled at my own inability to think of that. I would assume about 70% of the teams were thinking offense, so I guess like what Robert Frost has wrote:

 
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,	
And sorry I could not travel both	
And be one traveler, long I stood	
And looked down one as far as I could	
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	        5
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,	
And having perhaps the better claim,	
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;	
Though as for that the passing there	
Had worn them really about the same,	        10
 
And both that morning equally lay	
In leaves no step had trodden black.	
Oh, I kept the first for another day!	
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,	
I doubted if I should ever come back.	        15
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh	
Somewhere ages and ages hence:	
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—	
I took the one less traveled by,	
And that has made all the difference.

The better robots tend to be the most unique.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by apalrd

This means that on the rare occasion that you get to the tunnel before they do, and manages to not let 469 push you out, that they can still play a "normal" game, even if they can't change zones. They are good at it, too.

Palardy, were you at IRI and watching matches? I distinctly saw 469 voluntarily cross the bumps at least once on the webcast. They're not the best at it, but if they think it's a good plan, they can. They did risk tipping every time they went over them, but it was a calculated risk.

[BJC]

I was at IRI. They can definatly go over the bump. However, they only went over in the most extreme case. A couple times max over the course of the season. Besides that, if a match ever gets to the point where 469 has to cross a bump I would say that match is basically over for them.

I think thats why aplard said they can't. They can, but they shouldn't ever have too.

[apalrd]

I saw them do it on their practice field, and they tipped over sideways (and couldn't get up because of the bump) as many times as they went over. Maybe with more practice they could do it better. It also took them a very long time. I assumed they would never do it because of the risk of tipping.


They are very nice people, and they let us use their practice field all the time (They're like 3 minutes from our shop).

[MathMaven]

Team 469 had, of all the robots I saw, the coolest robot for Breakaway. It was a really simple design, but it worked very well. It definitely did change the way my team thought about playing the game.