This isn’t exactly related to the robot itself like most of the posts here, but figured I’d share a sorta-crazy superstition that developed at a competition, since the superstitions thread is… dead.
So, quick introduction. My team (and the rest of 8349) went to the CovCath Colonel Classic, where some of the best teams in Kentucky were competing (8349K, 9257C, 41091A, 38141B, etc.) We got a fairly good schedule. We were about halfway through the event, and had one loss out of the three matches we had ran.
Meet our sister team, 8349T. One of my friends is the notebooker on this team. Halfway through the event, she randomly hands me a wadded up gum wrapper as a “gift”… which somehow became a “good luck charm”. Don’t ask me how. Anyways, it must have worked, as we went on to win our final 3 qualification matches (one of which we technically shouldn’t have won, as the score was higher on the other side, but I think some weird rule violation came into play and my alliance somehow won.) On top of that, we ran the wrong code in programming skills (uncommented a non-working “extension” to the run, instead of the actual programming skills run) and still somehow managed to push a mobile goal into the other side, scoring a 20 in programming skills on complete accident.
Then we get into alliance selection and get denied twice. Guess everything good must come to an end.
I may or may not have kept said “good luck charm” as a superstitious item to bring to our next competition. I guess we’ll see if it works again this weekend…