Afternoon time schedule

We just got the new schedule, and we're playing our second preliminary round at 2:20. We've been tinkering with the code during lunch, just making sure that we'll be able to get home. Jeff and Brooke, who are on next year's team, are both here, and we've been supplying them with our sage advice on howto handle next year's competition, as far as questioning the rules and getting things set in stone.
There are still quite a few teams here that are full-on working on their robots. Georgia Tech's robot picked up four blocks and got stuck, so they weren't able to score the first round. Florida's robot, which even though it got a working hard drive, was having a slew of problems. It drove out to the middle of the court and started spinning in place. Another robot drove up on a block and got caught angled up. This building has been hell on every robot that uses a compass to determine its orientation. We're really glad we used a gyroscope instead.
At this point, there are only seven robots who have scored more than the ten points for getting out of the home base, and if it stays that way, we'll definitely be in the top 8.
Theresa just picked up a flyer about next year's competition. Apparently, it's going to be held from March 6-8, a full month earlier than usual. We haven't found out what the problem is yet, but we're really interested to. One good thing about having a much earlier competition is that the SECON team next year will have a LOT of time to clean up the robotics lab :)