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

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

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

WOO!

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 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...

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...

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.

Fighting Robots 1 (Nightmare, Chaos 2, BioHazard, Razer, Hazard, Deadblow, Blendo)

Buckle in, turn on the music, it’s more fighting robot time!

Hypno-Disc
Series: Robot Wars
Division: Heavyweight
Win-Loss record: 22-10

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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)

This Fighting Robots post covers a trio of bots from the same team: Team Hurtz. They kill, they hurt, get used to it!

Killerhurtz

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~8 hours spent in robotics today. My feet are killing me at the moment, but definitely worth it even if I missed both of the alarms I set this morning.

Team 971, up until this match, was rank #1.
We, team 4598, weren't even in top 10.

We beat them through strategic defense, with our team focusing entirely on defending against 971.

We went up to 9th place, and 971 dropped from 1st to 8th.

8th.

We are good at defense.

EDIT: WE MOVED UP TO 8TH. Team 971 is 7th now, but another top 10 team ahead of us dropped in rank!

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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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