Got talks going on in our alliance, and let's see if we can beat the competition in the playoffs!

We lost the quarterfinals. We're out of the competition in our region.

At least there's still the Idaho regionals in two weeks.

Went from 1st place to 7th to 11th back to 8th. 8th place out of 48 teams!

There's still tomorrow though...

Our robot might've shut down 3/4 the way through the match, but we still managed to raise from 8th place to 4th!

We dropped to third, then went back up.

*crosses fingers*

On the side note, I just realized that one of the teams competing is called "Trixie and the Megabots".

Coincidence?

A controller software glitch causes your robot to stall for half the round, and drop your team to 6th place...

WOO!

There's still tomorrow though.

Your robot stalls, and proceeds to fail spectacularly in the quarterfinals.

If we lose one more time, then we're out of the game.

Nothing like cramming in robotics to get the 'bot finished within the next week, amirite?

6 weeks, over. Robot: completed. All-threads: operational. Boxclaw: operational.

Celebratory cupcakes: delivered.

Robot: operational.

Weeks to SLC regional competition: ~1.5 weeks.

Let's hope it's a good one.

Our robot was slammed so hard that the entire top half came off.

We ended up in 8th place out of ~15 teams.

Utah regional is over. Our final match was lost horribly due to our two alliance teams breaking down on the field, while the rival alliance surrounded our robots and kept it from moving anywhere outside of a small area filled with boxes.

Here's to the Idaho regional competition faring better.

We may be in 35th place from bad alliances holding us back, but we just handed one of the top teams their first loss of the day.

Someone needs to make a fic involving these two. Granted I'm working on one rn, but I want to see what others come up with.

While I continue to try and regain my footing in writing, I decided to make a blog post about a previously-unmentioned great interest of mine: robot combat.

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Fighting Robots 1 (Nightmare, Chaos 2, BioHazard, Razer, Hazard, Deadblow, Blendo)
Fighting Robots 2 (Hypno-Disc, Tombstone, Supernova, Son of Whyachi, Carbide, Minotaur, Apex, Icewave, PP3D)
Fighting Robots 3 (Killerhurtz, Terrorhurtz, beta)

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Recently, alert reader JFalk asked about the timeline/timeframe of events in the story so far. So, here's a brief little morning post to discuss it!

Keep in mind, if you are NOT caught up on the story, there will be spoilers about events. If you're caught up to the most recent chapter, "Rhinestone Eyes, Part 1," then you're safe.

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OUR TEAM ALLIANCE WON THE 5TH QUALIFICATION ROUND BY 1 POINT.

WOO! TEAM 4598!