Weeks 1-3

Since kickoff, us Ogres have been keeping ourselves busy around the swamp. We started the season by all coming together to watch the Rebuilt game reveal on January 10th. As soon as we were able to access the game manual, we split up to delve deeper into the game’s intricacies. From there, we started discussing what our strategy is going to be for this season. With a better understanding of the goals that we wanted to strive for, we began to brainstorm simple mechanism concepts, and before the day was over, we had a general idea of what we wanted our build season to look like. During our first day in the swamp, our main focus was on disassembling old game elements and building new ones. In the spirit of disassembling, we took apart our Crescendo robot, The Gingerbread Man, to scrap him for parts. It was a bit of an emotional experience for those of us who devoted so much time to it, but it was necessary. Rest in pieces, Gingy. On the contrary, we finished the construction of the depot, bump, and, of course, the hub. Additionally, we started prototyping some designs, and when our game pieces finally arrived, we were able to get going, testing said prototypes out. Adding on, we also received our new swerve modules and began assembling them, until we realized that we were not sent the right parts, so we emailed the producers and should get those parts soon, and be able to finish the modules. It’s not only our build team who’s been busy. Our marketing team has been cooking up some cool button and T-shirt designs. They’ve also been writing our Woodie Flowers Nomination essay.