It's been a good run...

Well we ended up losing in the first round, thanks in no small part to some discrepancies between the given and actual dimensions of the table, but we did pretty well for how little testing we got to do, and we gave everyone a treat when our locking arm overpowered our opponents' so much it almost flipped their slot bot out enough to topple their rover. We wish we could have changed some things, but all in all, I for one am proud of Sei Jin's Rejects.

Our final design actually removed the blocking wall on the stationary bot, and the lifting arms on the rover that are pictured above to fall in the legal weight limit and avoid breaking rules about blocking.

Our final design was activated by driving the rover off of a flipper. This allowed a bar to rotate which deployed the locking arm, and closed the circuit to give power to the motor which advanced the scoring arm. A pin in the starting end of the scoring arm machine held the scoring arm up in the allowed starting zone until the arm moved far enough away the pin no longer held it up. The rotating bar also lifted a cover which held the locking arm back allowing potential energy in rubber bands to launch it at the flipper.

Our final rover design was cut down drastically so we could make our weight limit. The flipping arm mechanism was removed altogether, and the back flap which was able to move proved ineffective at moving the squash balls. Due to its heavy weight, the rover proved ineffective in the competition, being fairly slow and unmaneuverable. 

We all wish we had more time to test our design, but I'm proud of our work. We were even  chosen as having the best manufacturing. Finally, Sei Jin's Rejects would like to thank everyone who's helped us in our project.