And what if that robot in question has become known by the judges as the "Silver Steamboat"?

You get a robot that manages to ram and/or block every opponent it faces, and return with pretty much no damage whatsoever.

WE WON BY SIX POINTS.

WOO!

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On a bus. Still gonna be on the bus for the next five or so hours.

How do I have 4g in the middle of nowhere?!

Just starting! Yesterday was the practice and work day, and we ironed out quite a few kinks.

It turned out better than I thought. Sure, we're 32nd place out of 38 teams, but that's ranking points, which as the judges said, don't actually reflect the performance of individual teams. Instead, its the scoring points that count, and apparently we've got a disproportionately large number of scoring points compared to ranking, which means that its actually the randomly selected allies that our team ended up being placed with.

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