Don't you hate it when

you have shaft collars but no set screws

Wow that literally happened in our state tournament

You can use the regular small screws as set screws, they don’t look good but they do the job

i refuse to do that and will for as long as i live

I do that for flippout mechanisms

Dont you hate it when the first time your robot has ever fallen over is during your first drive at the world championship

Don’t you hate it when your instructor is coaching basketball or baseball for most of the year?

Or one of your team members decides he would rather do track team than prepare for worlds

dont you hate it when you look at your tournament schedule and its 95% claw bots

Don’t you hate it when you get entangled by the other alliance during finals at states effectively throwing any chance you had at winning the tournament

There is nothing worse than a claw or pushbot partner

It is if you don’t work out a strategy with them that can leverage they can hold AND hoard goals. You being able to mange 4 and them 2 gives you the win.

And what if they completely ignore you during the match?

With kindness, and gentle respect, place them under the platform, there is no mention of “Driver” or “Student” in SG3, so following VEX rule of “If we don’t say you can’t then you can”, hide away.

What do you mean?? Place the drivers under the opponent’s platform??

<G9> Hands out of the field. Drive Team Members may only touch the Team’s controls and Robot at specified times during a Match as per <G9a>. Drive Team Members are prohibited from making intentional contact with any Scoring Objects, Field Elements, or Robots during a Match, apart from the contact specified in <G9a>.

simply remove the problem from the equation :wink:

don’t you hate it when you make a 20ish page notebook right before states for it to not count for anything (Vex IQ TSA)

excuse me what?

did you have to submit it before hand remotely?

Nope.

From what I can tell, no TVRC or TIQC state competition cares one bit about notebooks. In Texas, the IQ competition isn’t even running a standard tournament or doing semifinal interviews. They’re only doing skills runs. TVRC is at least doing a full tournament and semifinal interviews for the top 10 teams.

Don’t you hate it when you try to build a robot without consulting the Purdue Sigbots Wiki with knowledge for competitors at all levels.

https://wiki.purduesigbots.com