Battery Buggy B

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I don't know how gelinas and solon did so poorly, NY posted their scores and gelinas did really good at states!

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I am answering for the Gelinas Battery Buggy team. We don't know what happened to get 30th place, unless all the other buggies were incredibly good.

The final distance was about 7 cm and the time was about 3 seconds. My team can give you more accurate details, but I witnessed it and took photos.

We would love to hear how other teams did who placed.

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Actually, the distance is probably closer to 10-15 cm.

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glaciergary wrote:Actually, the distance is probably closer to 10-15 cm.

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Most likely the 10 or so cm that you were off caused the placing, as that's 100 points right there (quite a bit).

I would estimate that the 1st place buggy probably was off by less than 1/2 cm and around 3 seconds or so for 8 or so meters. It was probably very close.

Anyways, do you know what systems the judges used to time? did they use stopwatches? That's probably a poor idea because the 1st and 6 were probably off by very very little.
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new horizon wrote:
Anyways, do you know what systems the judges used to time? did they use stopwatches? That's probably a poor idea because the 1st and 6 were probably off by very very little.
They where a standard sports stopwatch

Mine was 16cm off to the side
forgot to ask for time though
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ouch.... how was it off by that much?
did something go wrong competition day?
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new horizon wrote:ouch.... how was it off by that much?
did something go wrong competition day?
They main thing was my laziness at not testing it for straightness after the ride up from texas :lol:
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Wait, it became skewed after transporting it? Wow, did you transport it by plane? did the FAA open it up and screw it up so nothing was dangerous? :?
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new horizon wrote:Wait, it became skewed after transporting it? Wow, did you transport it by plane? did the FAA open it up and screw it up so nothing was dangerous? :?
It was driven up by one of the families who drove. it is really easy to get a large skew with just a small change so thats what happened
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