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				| My old school moved to Battlebots IQ last year. _________________
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		|  Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:33 am |  | 
	
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				| *jumps on ads* look they are so comfy! _________________
 rednekbob9: 1: You're Female
 rednekbob9: 2: You're Internet-able
 rednekbob9: 3: You like anime
 rednekbob9: you're automatically a perfect match
 rednekbob9: run like hell
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		|  Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:48 pm |  | 
	
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	  | WhtHawk wrote: |  
	  | How'd it go?  Did it turn out the way you wanted it to?  Ours was having pnuematic troubles when ship time came around. |  
 Considering all the snags we've hit, and that we're only a rookie team, we did SUPER well.  And pneumatics are FUN.  We wanted to have our bot DONE by 8 AM last Saturday (the 20th?  Maybe 21st . . . whichever) so we could go to a scrimage.  We decided the Thursday before, at 5pm, that we would be adding a whole second deck and that we would be using pneumatics.
 
 I don't know how my crew did it, but 90% of it was done for that Saturday.
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 anime is teh s uck
 
 Play City of Heroes/Villians?  Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox
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		|  Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:29 pm |  | 
	
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				| I think we had problems one of the valves being hooked up backwards, then one of the motors destroyed it-self when we plugged it into the wrong port.  We had everything replaced but the programming still had lots of bugs.  This is only our third year competing so we arn't that new either.  Good luck, maybe we'll meet at nationals. (crosses fingers) _________________
 To do two things at once is to do neither. —Publilius Syrus, Roman slave, first century B.C.
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		|  Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:12 pm |  | 
	
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	  | counterparadox wrote: |  
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	  | ToonamiL wrote: |  
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	  | counterparadox wrote: |  
	  | Shameless plug to make ads more relevant to me and me alone: ZIM zim Zim zIm ziM "Invader Zim" Gir GIR Dib Beast Wars "Beast Wars" Cheese "Golden Retriever Puppy Calendars" FIRST FIRST F.I.R.S.T. Robot build a robot Ben Folds Time to make the donuts and finally, I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts. |  
 I wonder where you've been.
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 Where've I been?  In all honesty, building a robot.
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 Really?! Will it have lasers and giant fighting arms and can transform into an album cover? That would be cool!
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		|  Fri Mar 05, 2004 5:05 pm |  | 
	
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				| WE WON THE ROOKIE ALL STAR AWARD!  WE'RE GOING TO NATIONALS! 
 Man, you have no idea how stoked I am.  Good luck, WhtHawk, if you haven't competed already.
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 anime is teh s uck
 
 Play City of Heroes/Villians?  Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox
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		|  Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:26 pm |  | 
	
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	  | counterparadox wrote: |  
	  | WE WON THE ROOKIE ALL STAR AWARD!  WE'RE GOING TO NATIONALS! |  Congrats!
 
 We want pictures!
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 "Robots don't say 'ye'."
 "I'll show ye!"
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		|  Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:31 pm |  | 
	
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				| Great work CP!  You guys must have kicked some serious bot (the phrase came from a GI Joe space mecha l'm used to have). We're leaving Thursday morning for our competition.  Congrats again. _________________
 To do two things at once is to do neither. —Publilius Syrus, Roman slave, first century B.C.
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		|  Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:44 pm |  | 
	
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				| CP!  Omedeto! _________________
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		|  Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:44 am |  | 
	
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				| Well, we lost half our matches (2 of which we lost because of our alliance partners (one partner had their bot break down in a previous match and so we were partner-less (their shooter then went on to step over the line in autonomous thus giving us a 10 point penalty that lost us the match (WE WOULD HAVE WON WITHOUT A PARTNER!)) and in the other match our partner flipped over in autonomous, leaving us without any help.)  Of the other two losses, one was because the wires connecting our speed controllers were loose, and thus our driver couldn't get us up to the bar which would have won us the match. 
 So we had the potential to be a 7-1 team, and instead caught some tough breaks and were a 4-4 team.
 
 But that's the way the cookie crumbles.
 
 The top team at our regional scouted us, personally, and almost chose us as their 2nd alliance partner for the finals.  They chose a team that was slightly worse than us, instead.  They told us there was a discussion about it, and we were ALMOST chosen.  The team went on to win the regional.  So we were REALLY close to winning a regional.
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 anime is teh s uck
 
 Play City of Heroes/Villians?  Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox
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		|  Sun Mar 07, 2004 1:06 pm |  | 
	
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				| So, what the hell does your robot do? If anything it should have some C4 inside to "accidentally" explode on someone. _________________
 You're An Inu (Dog)!
 Loyal and protective.  A true friend all the way.
 You love having yours ears scratched, and being near your loved ones.
 
 "If you people cared as much for human life as we do, we wouldn't have to kill all of you."
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		|  Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:04 pm |  | 
	
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				| Do you even have the slightest clue to what the FIRST Robotics competition is? _________________
 There is limited intelligence in the galaxy, but the stupidity of the universe is infinite.
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		|  Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:01 pm |  | 
	
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				| FDD, I didn't know you knew about FIRST.  I thought just Bono and FAK did, and then later found that WhtHawk did too.  Are you involved at all? _________________
 anime is teh s uck
 
 Play City of Heroes/Villians?  Look me up, Pinnacle server, @C Paradox
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		|  Sun Mar 07, 2004 11:27 pm |  | 
	
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				| All I wanna know is what your robot is for, is it one of those soccer playing robots? _________________
 You're An Inu (Dog)!
 Loyal and protective.  A true friend all the way.
 You love having yours ears scratched, and being near your loved ones.
 
 "If you people cared as much for human life as we do, we wouldn't have to kill all of you."
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