Week 6 - (18/10/19)

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The Map Arrived!

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The map arrived and the team has been preparing it along with testing the robot to see if we could manoeuvre properly around the map. Everyone was surprised to see that this year's map was much smaller in length than last year's so we had to change the bot drastically. The team was then split up, into sub teams making different buildings for the map.

SUMO Competition

All the teams in the SUMO competition are working by themselves improving the manoeuvrability of their bots to allow for quick evasion tactics where one bot may move out of the way of another just in time that the other bot has no time to stop and runs out of the designated area. Some teams are going for a tactic to make their robots as heavy as possible to make sure no other robot can push or pull them out of the ring. Two teams thought they were ready and started battling, it was a heated friendly match that ended with a bang.....both teams have learned what to improve and what to keep the same.

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