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

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.

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!

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

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

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!

This Saturday marks the kickoff event of the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), and the reveal of this year's game topic.

It's also the beginning of build season.

Prepare for another flood of blogs once the competitions begin.

We were literally one part away from finishing the robot for this Saturday's AMES competition, but then what happens?

Turns out nobody bothered to look at the datasheets for the two motors used for the ball launcher, and we ended up pushing 40 amps through a motor designed to start at 1.8 amps , with around 12 amps at tops.

Commence magical purple smoke of death and two fried motors.

It only took a doubled amount of time of working on it as well as lifting heavy metal parts everywhere, but the robot is fixed up and ready for the competition tomorrow.

As for now, my feet hurt. Badly.