I spent a study hall today compiling the Super Ultimate Complete Final Deluxe Edition 2015 R2 of the engineering notebook. All our tools, extra supplies, and of course the robot have been packed into our coach's van for transportation to the meet tomorrow.
The previous three meets were basically just practice. We had to attend them because FTC requires each team to attend at least three meets in the initial season to advance to state competitions. Tomorrow's meet is the real deal - there will be judges' interviews, decent-sized audiences, policies/procedures, and elimination matches.
We have all the components we need to succeed, but all the systems of our robot each have their own subtle issues. The lift, for example, has a decent chance of spitting out nuts and washers when run. The intake belt occasionally jams. The wheels sometimes stop working or go extremely slowly. Autonomous is just a complete disaster.
If nothing horrible happens with our built systems, we should do really well. Of course, at least something will fail, so hopefully we get good alliance partners.
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