So this happened today at GTR West
overpowered much???
lol the safet barrier is not safe
How I hope this went down:
The robot gains sentience and thinks: “Ok. I’m on the bridge now… back up, hard forward to the right… here I go! Yes! I’m free Here I c–”
robot disconnected
FTA walks over to it, puts one leg on top of robot like this, and says “Nice try, but for now, humans rule.”
And then since this is GTR-W there’s also maple syrup somewhere and the drive team says “Sooory.”
A similar thing happened to team 8 at the Sacramento regional
You beat me to it. And at roughly the same time a three bot balance was going on at the other side of the field. It was hard to decide which to watch.
I’m surprised this hasn’t happened more with the bridges right up against the wall and many teams having some sort of wedge on their bot to push the bridge down/get them over the barrier.
Match on YouTube of how it happened.
I can see how it happened this year, but last year, I was very impressed by team 115, who, at an offseason event in california managed to climb up onto the railing before being disabled
https://picasaweb.google.com/117769834305511597729/CalGames#5533336189645407826
1756 ARGOS did something similar in the elims at Boilermaker… they managed to straddle the rail, only with the robot’s down wheels being on the field side.
There is a picture of it somewhere…