For the seeding round our machine was complete and ready. We had tested our dropping our five times the day prior and it only worked two. The problem was that the tip of the arm would deflect off the flipper and miss the gap it was supposed to jam. We later realized that we needed to place the module half and inch farther from the flipper for it to be successful. During the seeding round our dropping arm missed making it impossible to score within the slot. Our car would have been functional had we not plugged in the wires incorrectly.
For the competition we got flustered during setup and the pin in our ramp came out which caused that arm mechanism to drop. It took about 40 seconds to get the pin back in place and we did not have time to setup our machine. We ended up going over time and getting disqualified. We did not hook up the dropping arm during setup time and we left our car tangled in wires so we were unable to score.
We were devastated that our machine failed because of setup mistakes. We wish we could have had a second chance.
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