DEWBOT V Bridgewater Battle

6-June-2009 Team 1640 performed well at the first Bridgewater Battle competition, placing 3rd out of 18 in the qualifying rounds. We won 5 of our 6 qualifying matches. These matches were played with (2) robot alliances (and, of course, just 2 trailers). The game was further modified in that (6) Empty Cells were placed in the Outposts; so potentially (6) Super Cells could be put into play by the corner human player (just one such player per alliance, as the other was by necessity in the Outpost).

We modified our strategy to suit the game and focused on delivering Empty Cells to our human player (Matt Klufas). We shot the Empty Cells in. Matt scored (5) Super Cells during the day. He is clearly 1640's superhuman player.

We led the 3rd Alliance during playoffs. Alas, we were eliminated early on.

Woodie Flowers attended the competition and awarded the teams with trophies commemorating our participation in the 1st Bridgewater Battle.

Elizabeth Murphy served as shooter operator for the first time in competition. She was great.

Carly drove. Carly loves to push opposing robots around.