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irishninja
11-03-2006, 22:21
Just wanted to hear stories of amazing plays. In trenton, during one quaterfinals between mckee 522s alliance and robbes alliance it was so exciting. The first match, McKee had great autonomous and got all 10 balls in. During the second match Robbe changed their autonomous so they came and blocked McKee's balls. No 522 couldn't get balls at all, so everyone just watched as all the balls they could have just bounced off Robbe. My sympathies. During the third match, up comes 522, here comes Robbe to block, and then out of nowhere, comes some other robot, can't remember, on 522's alliance and knocks Robbe over on to its side. McKee was able to then score all then balls. Absolutely amazing.
Rick TYler
11-03-2006, 22:34
One of my favorite plays was subtle more than amazing. Top Gun was playing defense on a corner goal, against an alliance that didn't have any good center goal shooters. Top Gun drove into front of the goal, turned 180 degrees and then just sat there with its Victors blinking. A few seconds later, Team 360 (with a very good corner dumper, IIRC) had collected some balls and started moving towards that corner to score. As 360 started to move, Top Gun moved forward about six inches. 360 then spun around and drove off -- not even trying to move 1294 out of position. It might have been the brightest single moment in a mildly disappointing tournament, and I don't even remember if we won that one -- but it showed that a good team with a good 'bot respected us enough not to try to drive through us to the goal. It was one of those moral victories we mid-pack teams rely on to keep us going (sort of like scoring five times in three seconds in a match that was then re-run).
Rick TYler
11-03-2006, 22:35
My other favorite play was watching the Scallywags (#1359) driving up on the "wrong" ramp at the end of a match to increase the losing alliance's score. Smart strategy.
Ian Curtis
11-03-2006, 22:42
Once at BAE I observed a human player throwing a ball which ended up in the other alliance's robot and jammed their shooter. I don't think it was intentional, but it sure was an added bonus. :ahh: I don't know which alliance won the match.
How can anyone leave 25 out of this? I personally loved the skill it took 25s drivers to get close enough to the goal to shoot nearly 10/10 in finals match 1.2 at NJ. Also loved 25s idea to save the autonomous switching idea for the last match.
While watching the Florida regional webcast I saw a team line up their flag with the oppositions shooter, and watched a few balls get deflected by the flag. Very amusing.
Personally, I'm holding out on Atlanta for great plays. How about we get to see another last-minute-503-cap-esque hail mary? :cool:
Cody Carey
12-03-2006, 00:19
What kind? :)
There is the "Brokeded" caption...
During one of our matches, we lost our left drive on the opposite side of the field. "Whats so special about that?" you ask?
Well, we made it, driving in gigantic arcs and loopdy-loops and other such
cursive-reminiscent patterns all the way back to, and on top of, our ramp. this won us our match by five points.
And the "last stand" type of play...
Another time we were the only functioning robot on our alliance, and we kept 3 GOOD shooters at bay ( they only got 3 balls in) for an entire one of our defensive periods.(in previous matches,each bot managed to sink about 6 of 8 balls shot)
The ever-popular Gracious Professionalism play...
We tore our robot to heck while saving one of the opposite alliances robots from tipping off of the ramp, and probably damaging their robot badly.
And last but not least... the "brute-force-we-shoved-two-robots-ten-feet-into-a-wall-against-their-will" plays:
We saw a dumper and a shooter lining up to score side-by-side and so we pinned the shooter against the dumper, and the dumper against the wall for the last 10 seconds of their offensive period, neither one of them scored a point.
I am proud of our pushing power :D
I have one sweet defensive play. In the finals of the Buckeye Regional Team 272 was able to push 2 robots at once. Neither could get a good shot because they would be spun or pushed out of scoring range before either could begin shooting.
Rick TYler
12-03-2006, 00:30
Madison told me about this one, I didn't see it. Near the end of a finals match, X-Bot (488) was guarding the Cheesy Poofs (253). The X-Bot's alliance had a pretty big lead, and X-Bot had been able to hold off the Poofs during the last period. With a few seconds left (I think Madison said 5), X-Bot headed for the ramp, leaving the Poofs unguarded. The Poofs managed to line up with the goal and sink enough buckets to win the match in just about three seconds. I think Madison said they scored 18 points in that period. Like I wrote earlier -- 253 built an amazing robot.
Idaman323
12-03-2006, 00:54
Well at the St. Louis Regionals.. I saw a number of nice plays. Once when we were against 1288, Raven Robotics, it was during all play. The last 15 seconds of the game. Our right side was not riding. We were trying to get up the ramp along with our other two bots. When all of a sudden, 1288 comes driving over with a loaded hopper and scored about 6 shots in a row letting them win the game 48 to 40.
Also, our very first game during the first "real" match day... we had just programmed our autonomous. Since the spot next to the goal (a dumping bot took that), the center spot (a shooting team took that), and we had nothing. So we programmed the bot to just run accross the field and ram the other teams shooting autonomous. It was Team 16, the bomb squad to be exact. Our autonomous went right across, nearly tipped them along with us... and knocked them completly off course. But then... we realized our robot was programmed wrong and our drive in one wheel didn't nuetralize. So we had a spinning robot of doom just randomly moving placs accross the field. Then later that day.. I noticed alot more team using this idea.
Okay last one... We later found out that we could aim our gun at the ground, and roll the balls to the far corner ground goal during autnomous fairly easily. We programmed it... and one team used the ram the other teams robot during autonmous strategy... and stopped directly in front of us. So we were firing 6 balls at a robot point blank range. So we try it again with another match. This time... our chain broke.. and our center teams battery died. So right as it started their robot turned left right infront of ours and we were shooting it point blank. Surprisingly... we still won.. with a dead battery on a robot and a broken chain on ours. SO THEN, we try it one more time we are partnered with the same team... same exact thing happens.. they turned right in front of us. If only we could have had a successful round.. It woulda been a huge advantage over other teams.
It was definatly an interesting regional.. thats all I gotta say.
Uberbots
12-03-2006, 01:03
in the quarter finals team 177 flipped 2 bots and about 6 or 7 3 pointers before flipping ourselves :yikes:
That was one heck of a play, i must admit :)
as for amazing plays...
I believe that there was one match in the elimination rounds where we were causing chaos during the opposing team's scoring period. So while we (and Aces High i think) were doing this, 177 lined up on the opposite side of the Field to score a truckload of points without any opposition.
Great play.
Edit: Spelling.
CraigHickman
12-03-2006, 01:32
If anyone saw 254 during the finals, they really showed what scoring meant. Though it hurts me a little to admit it (we were up against them next in the finals when they did this), they deserve the credit. Their bot was driven up onto the opponents ramp with a full (about 20 ball) hopper. From there, they proceeded to empty that hopper into the center goal in about 12 seconds, leaving them 80 points above the other alliance.
In the match against us, however, we didn't let them get enough balls, and so they could only empty about 15 balls into the center goal. It was still enough to seal the game, but not enough to completely level us.
If anyone saw 254 during the finals, they really showed what scoring meant. Though it hurts me a little to admit it (we were up against them next in the finals when they did this), they deserve the credit. Their bot was driven up onto the opponents ramp with a full (about 20 ball) hopper. From there, they proceeded to empty that hopper into the center goal in about 12 seconds, leaving them 80 points above the other alliance.
In the match against us, however, we didn't let them get enough balls, and so they could only empty about 15 balls into the center goal. It was still enough to seal the game, but not enough to completely level us.
254's alliances' last play was my favorite of the regional post-ranking matches. Their two teammates ran as linebackers as the best two "defensive offence" (defending a shoot) plays. It was crazy, 360's alliance seamed to just bounce off.
s_forbes
12-03-2006, 11:56
In the finals at the Phoenix regonal, the red alliance consisted of two very acurate and fast shooters that could nail the goal in autonomous (team 1241 and the high rollers) and the blue alliance had only one working 3 point shooter, that looked no where near as impressive as red's. It looked like a sure win for red.
Just as predicted, red won the first match. But on the second match, team 60 coded their robot to go play defence. It went in a bee line towards the red alliances prefered shooting area and managed to knock one robot sideways and block the other robot's shots at the same time! Meanwhile, a corner scorer (team 1006) scored ten points for blue, and they won the autonomous and managed to use some spectacuar defence to win the second match.
The same thing happened in the third match, blue won autonomous and played the best defence that I had seen at the regonal. At the very end, blue managed to get all three robots on the alliance platform and the crowd went nuts.
AcesPease
12-03-2006, 12:16
in the quarter finals team 177 flipped 2 bots and about 6 or 7 3 pointers before flipping ourselves :yikes:
Super Job, Bobcats
Bill Pease
Aces High Team 176
2006 UTC New England Champions with team 177 :D
BoyWithCape195
12-03-2006, 12:18
I noticed that the bobcats front section of robot was becoming a wedge many times, yet it was never called.
AcesPease
12-03-2006, 12:28
That was one heck of a play, i must admit :)
as for amazing plays...
I believe that there was one match in the elimination rounds where we were causing chaos during the opposing team's scoring period. So while we (and Aces High i think) were doing this, 177 lined up on the opposite side of the Field to score a truckload of points without any opposition.
Great play.
Edit: Spelling.
I think it was the Bobcats defending with you. They were amazing throughout the elimination matches. We (Aces High) were the backbot every round, and we did score a lot of 3 point goals.
Bill Pease
Team 176 Aces High
2006 UTC New England Regional Champions
with team captain 177 Bobcats and team 1124 Uberbot
(an All UTC alliance finally worked :) )
At GLR, my team, 1015 made it to the finals. We were ranked number 11, but still got the 8th slot for alliance captains. Of course slots 8 and 1 played each other for the first match. Alliance 1 had two identical robots, 15## and 1114 (I think). They both had autonomous shooters and treads.
In the first of our two finals matches (we lost both...), 1015 was on defense as always during autonomous but couldn't move the twins because of the treads. But later in the match in our pushing contests, we disabled BOTH of the robots... by detaching their treads :cool:. It was just so sweet to see ;)
In the finals at the Phoenix regonal, the red alliance consisted of two very acurate and fast shooters that could nail the goal in autonomous (team 1241 and the high rollers) and the blue alliance had only one working 3 point shooter, that looked no where near as impressive as red's. It looked like a sure win for red.
Just as predicted, red won the first match. But on the second match, team 60 coded their robot to go play defence. It went in a bee line towards the red alliances prefered shooting area and managed to knock one robot sideways and block the other robot's shots at the same time! Meanwhile, a corner scorer (team 1006) scored ten points for blue, and they won the autonomous and managed to use some spectacuar defence to win the second match.
The same thing happened in the third match, blue won autonomous and played the best defence that I had seen at the regonal. At the very end, blue managed to get all three robots on the alliance platform and the crowd went nuts.
Funny thing was that auton was for lining up to shoot into the center goal.
Az was a very competitive regional this year, all of our matches were VERY close, and I am still stunned that we managed to get the upper hand on the high rollers alliance.
devicenull
12-03-2006, 21:05
We managed to keep all three opponent robots off the ramp, with 2 wheel drive, and casters in the front. I don't have a clue how we managed that.
SURVIVORfan44
12-03-2006, 21:35
During the quarterfinals at VCU 343 and 975 ran smack into each other and both bots flipped each other at the same time. SOAP probably has the video of this, if you ever want to see it, you should check it out. It's awesome. I actually happened to be right in the middle of them on the sidelines.
Holtzman
12-03-2006, 23:13
But later in the match in our pushing contests, we disabled BOTH of the robots... by detaching their treads :cool:. It was just so sweet to see ;)
Ya, it was even sweeter when they announced the score...
96-23 for the 1503, 1114, 67 alliance. Better luck next year. :)
sanddrag
12-03-2006, 23:41
I know it says amazing robot plays but I thought Team 60 had an incredible human player. That girl could throw! :)
I know it says amazing robot plays but I thought Team 60 had an incredible human player. That girl could throw! :)
Hehe, this is a keeper! Just to avoid confusion, we had a few human players, but the long haired one(I assume thats who you are talking about) is a guy :p
Needless to say, he catches much flack for his hair style on our team. ;)
irishninja
13-03-2006, 00:09
Another great play was then we were first testing autonomous. We ended up giong straight (at an angle) into anothe rrobot who was shotting. Short story short, it started shooting balls at the judges.
Shu Song
13-03-2006, 00:25
There were many great plays, but one really merits recognition.
The first seeded alliance, 229, 1126, and 1567 had just steamrolled through quarter and semifinals. Their strategy centered around 1126 unloading 8+ balls during autonomous. They were facing the 2nd seed alliance with 191, 250, and 211.
First seed dominated the first match 87-14, using old strategy. But second match, something surprising happened. During autonomous, 1126 didn't shoot any balls. At first I thought that their shooter was broken, but later realized that 250 was strafing back and forth in front of 1126's camera, so that it couldn't get a lock on the light. Many teams before this have tried to simply block 1126's amazing autonomous by ramming into it, but their robot would still make the majority of balls in. This was a brilliant late-game strategy that shocked the whole stadium. This strategy paid off as 2nd seed alliance won match #2, 12-9. They did it again in the rubber match, but 1st seed alliance adapted and made up for the loss of autonomous with a few quick shots on goal late in the game and getting on the ramp.
This was easily the best two games that I've seen for Aim High.
I now know that it was actually a camera malfunction.
<edit>Same tale as irishninja: i posted this before i realized that he told the story in short.
In one of our seeding matches at UTC we programmed the autonomous for ramming a shooter bot. I don't think it ran right but what it did was run either into the intended auton shooter or another one in their back corner just as they were running past, knocking them to a 90 degree angle, perfectly placed so all 10 balls were fired at the judges.
It was pretty funny to watch (no one was injured), and the announcer made a timeless comment like: "(team name) is moving along, and Oh! 694 hits them and it looks like all their balls are being fired at the judges! poor judges!"
chaoticprout
13-03-2006, 01:35
Not necessarily amazing in terms of unique-ness, but I always love when teams push up their teammates who barely can't make it up the ramp. I don't know, something about that brings a smile to my face...and cheers in the crowd. I love it.
Erics626
13-03-2006, 09:53
Some of my team's favorite plays from Buckeye Regional:
Team 135 had a a fearfully accurate shooter. Once they were in position, they could unload all the ball's that they had collected in a very short time period. In the Quarter Finals, We effectively shut them down, shadowing them and making sure they couldn't get into position. It was quite a sight to see our Ice Cube ramming 135's massive machine.
Team 703 had a fearful autonomous mode. They would go on the ramp and unload all ten balls into the center goal. It was quite a sight. After we lost the first match in the semi-finals, our programmer quickly changed our autonomous to run an intercept course. It was successful and we ran a collision course right into 703, winning autonomous. The yells from our alliance and our programmer were enourmous.
Team 141 sat on the ramp, blocking 703 from getting into position. Towards the end, 1018 pushed the struggling and massive 461 up onto the ramp and still had time to get back on the floor and move up onto the remaining slot on the ramp, winning the match for us.
Dan Richardson
13-03-2006, 10:16
My favorite play might be a little biased but it was autonomous mode in the semi final match at UCF regional. 357 1523 and 1902 we were playing 233 190 and 744. 357 went out to hit pink and got picked by 190, but 1902 went and dumped 10 balls in the corner like they always do, but 1523 randomly started shooting 7 out of 10 balls into the top goal. They had never shot before from the center, they knew they had the range but never once actually tried it. They lined it up for the first time and made 7 out of 10 balls! absolutely stunning everyone in the stadium it helped lead us to a victory in the semi finals and propel us out to finals.
The coolest auto was 190 and 233 in thier first qualifying they came out and each shot like 8/10 balls into the blue center goal, scored a staggering amount of points in auton.
FF_1610_EMT
13-03-2006, 10:28
here our some of my favorite plays:
one is during our final qualifying match one of our alliance partners(620) was DQed for a unacceptable modification to a wire. so that left us with two bots and not having to worry bout a back bot. so the match was now 3 bots to 2 bots. the other alliance had teams 435(robodogs and very good shooter) and 343(our later alliance partner in the championship rounds) both of thse bots had treads and awesome shooters. well my team won defense first and both bots on the alliance went straight for 435 and 343. while the other team was pushing 343 around, i went after 435. while pushing 435 back i hit 343 and started pushing both teams back and away from the center goal. then at the end of the match i was trying to get up on the ramp but i couldn't(which was a good thing)because 435 trying coming in behind us but our teams robot slid off the ramp and hit 435 keeping them from shooting.
my other favorite match was the very last match in the finals (finals match 1-2) when the 7th seeded alliance was going against the 4th seeded alliance. the blue alliance was 1610, 343, and 1598(7th seeded alliance) and the red alliance was 384, 435, and 1522(4th seeded alliance). during that match the teflon on the right front wheel of our robot was coming off so i decided to play defense and i was ramming 384 and 435 non-stop to keep them from shooting into the center goal.(the match before this one i damaged 384 so badly that they had to take a timeout to repair their robot :D ) my alliance ended up winning that match along with the regional. can't wait to see 384 in atlanta.
jagman2882
13-03-2006, 10:48
The reason for the loss of shooting in Auto mode was the fact that we lost the crimp on our camera. We fixed it between the 2nd and 3rd matches but i was still not operational.
There were many great plays, but one really merits recognition.
The first seeded alliance, 229, 1126, and 1567 had just steamrolled through quarter and semifinals. Their strategy centered around 1126 unloading 8+ balls during autonomous. They were facing the 2nd seed alliance with 191, 250, and 211.
First seed dominated the first match 87-14, using old strategy. But second match, something surprising happened. During autonomous, 1126 didn't shoot any balls. At first I thought that their shooter was broken, but later realized that 250 was strafing back and forth in front of 1126's camera, so that it couldn't get a lock on the light. Many teams before this have tried to simply block 1126's amazing autonomous by ramming into it, but their robot would still make the majority of balls in. This was a brilliant late-game strategy that shocked the whole stadium. This strategy paid off as 2nd seed alliance won match #2, 12-9. They did it again in the rubber match, but 1st seed alliance adapted and made up for the loss of autonomous with a few quick shots on goal late in the game and getting on the ramp.
This was easily the best two games that I've seen for Aim High.
Dylan Gramlich
13-03-2006, 11:53
the strange thing with the camera the last two matches in the finals was that at that point everything should have worked but for some reason didnt
i have to give credit in that last match to our alliance partners 229 and team 1567 for their key shots and awsome play as well as our human player who sank 4 shots in the last match
nuggetsyl
13-03-2006, 11:55
can you guys post video of these plays
shaun
Martinez
13-03-2006, 12:03
at FLR:
Kudos to our Chuck drivers. About mid day on Friday, we got hit in automode, pinned perfectly between a corner ramp and the the platform. It took about half the match, but to my surprise they got it out. Of course, none of that compares to the "Wall of Shooters"
Alex Cormier
13-03-2006, 12:16
I would have to say one of the most amazing plays at FLR would be the High Score Match of 109. Just imagine 229, 1126, 340 all lined up to shoot at the free-for-all round. As the light turned on bam! all the balls went either to the goal or out because there was so many balls going in one area! was amazing.
DjAlamose
13-03-2006, 12:46
Nuf Said (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45387)
ff1610emt, I understand that your are excited that you won a regional, and we acknowledge this victory, but this is no excuse to start making acusations about other teams. We did not need to make any repairs on our robot during the entire regional event other than resetting our frame's lexan shielding, hence the GM Industrial Design Award. In gracious professionalism it is not acceptable to say that you damaged someone intentionally, and then inserting a smiley. While we respect your team and your robot, we feel that your comments are unacceptable and, above all, false.
In gracious professionalism,
Team 384
here our some of my favorite plays:
one is during our final qualifying match one of our alliance partners(620) was DQed for a unacceptable modification to a wire. so that left us with two bots and not having to worry bout a back bot. so the match was now 3 bots to 2 bots. the other alliance had teams 435(robodogs and very good shooter) and 343(our later alliance partner in the championship rounds) both of thse bots had treads and awesome shooters. well my team won defense first and both bots on the alliance went straight for 435 and 343. while the other team was pushing 343 around, i went after 435. while pushing 435 back i hit 343 and started pushing both teams back and away from the center goal. then at the end of the match i was trying to get up on the ramp but i couldn't(which was a good thing)because 435 trying coming in behind us but our teams robot slid off the ramp and hit 435 keeping them from shooting.
my other favorite match was the very last match in the finals (finals match 1-2) when the 7th seeded alliance was going against the 4th seeded alliance. the blue alliance was 1610, 343, and 1598(7th seeded alliance) and the red alliance was 384, 435, and 1522(4th seeded alliance). during that match the teflon on the right front wheel of our robot was coming off so i decided to play defense and i was ramming 384 and 435 non-stop to keep them from shooting into the center goal.(the match before this one i damaged 384 so badly that they had to take a timeout to repair their robot :D ) my alliance ended up winning that match along with the regional. can't wait to see 384 in atlanta.
Ty Tremblay
13-03-2006, 14:43
During the Quarterfinals at BAE, our team consisted of 3 different autonomous modes (our (319) center goal shooter, 562's lower goal dumper, and a defensive mover by 176). The other team had two center goal shooters and a dumper. The autonomous went like so...
The two shooters on the other alliance went for the goal and the dumper had a delay that was going to go for the lowergoal afterwards. 176 went straight out and pushed one shooter into another, throwing both teams' aim off. 176 then continued to push them into the dumper stopping their robot from scoring also. Our robot went up and scored all 10 balls in the center goal, and 562 dumped all ten of its balls in the lower goal. We won the autonomous part of the match 50 - 0.
Don Wright
13-03-2006, 15:54
I was ramming 384 and 435 non-stop to keep them from shooting into the center goal.(the match before this one i damaged 384 so badly that they had to take a timeout to repair their robot :D )
Sigh... Glad you are proud to damage their robot.
sciencenerd
13-03-2006, 21:23
254's alliances' last play was my favorite of the regional post-ranking matches. Their two teammates ran as linebackers as the best two "defensive offence" (defending a shoot) plays. It was crazy, 360's alliance seamed to just bounce off.
Yes, that was one of my favorites. For everyone who hasn't seen 254's robot this year, they only shoot when they are up against the wall on the ramp right in front of the goal. Well, after the first Finals match had been played everyone saw the power of 254's design, once they got lined up under the goal they could pop about twenty balls in to the center in about ten seconds. In the third Finals match (Cheesy Poofs' shooter malfunctioned in the second, so they lost) 360 decided to keep 254's robot from getting in position, by sitting under the goal exactly where they had to be to shoot. 254 got their alliance partner, 753, who had treads, to get up on the ramp next to 360 and shove them out of the way, then back off and give the Cheesy Poofs a chance to get their shots in. It worked great, and sealed the match. Amazing teamwork!
Shu Song
13-03-2006, 21:41
The reason for the loss of shooting in Auto mode was the fact that we lost the crimp on our camera. We fixed it between the 2nd and 3rd matches but i was still not operational.
Oops, my bad, it just looked like the bot was blocking the view of the camera from where I was sitting. Well there goes my whole post.
AcesPease
13-03-2006, 22:15
During the Quarterfinals at BAE, our team consisted of 3 different autonomous modes (our (319) center goal shooter, 562's lower goal dumper, and a defensive mover by 176). The other team had two center goal shooters and a dumper. The autonomous went like so...
The two shooters on the other alliance went for the goal and the dumper had a delay that was going to go for the lowergoal afterwards. 176 went straight out and pushed one shooter into another, throwing both teams' aim off. 176 then continued to push them into the dumper stopping their robot from scoring also. Our robot went up and scored all 10 balls in the center goal, and 562 dumped all ten of its balls in the lower goal. We won the autonomous part of the match 50 - 0.
Thanks to 319 for picking us. We had a blast at Granite State.
Some of the best play I have seen at AZ: a rookie team, with possibly the weakest drive at the regional (2 CIMs, 2 wheel drive, two casters, kit tranny), managed to keep 60 from shooting any balls at the center goal in the fourth period and forced them to go corner. I forget who won, but it was the craziest thing to see this veteran team get pushed around by one of the newest teams in FIRST.
Justin Montois
13-03-2006, 23:55
I would have to say one of the most amazing plays at FLR would be the High Score Match of 109. Just imagine 229, 1126, 340 all lined up to shoot at the free-for-all round. As the light turned on bam! all the balls went either to the goal or out because there was so many balls going in one area! was amazing.
It was so awesome to see that. I was with our drivers listening to the discussion about what do do in our match and this is the plan they devised. To see it come together was awesome. Here it is (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/23676?)
MrBamboo
14-03-2006, 00:07
I would have to say one of the most amazing plays at FLR would be the High Score Match of 109. Just imagine 229, 1126, 340 all lined up to shoot at the free-for-all round. As the light turned on bam! all the balls went either to the goal or out because there was so many balls going in one area! was amazing.
what match number was that? I'd like to watch the match on here but i need to know which one it is :P
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I think one of the coolest plays i saw at VCU was in the quarterfinals when Sparky 384 was against the Tigertrons 222. 222 is famous for driving up on their opponenets ramp to score lots of balls in a row,thus increasing their score tremendously (this was during qualification rounds).
During the quarterfinals, Sparky decides to play hard defense on 222 by getting up on the ramp and blocking 222 from scoring. It was a very risky play but the crowd was going nuts. They actually prevented 222 from scoring their full load, but they may have gotten 1 or 2 in.
The next best thing after this play was when Sparky tipped off the ramp on its side, but their alliance partners 1522 came to hold them upright on the ramp and helped them back on their wheels. As soon as this happened, Sparky came back on offense and scored 4-5 balls in the center goal.
Another interesting thing is Sparky misfired and shot a ball into the crowd, which i happened to catch. The ball came right to me! Nice throw guys, i was definitely alert ;) VCU was a great tournament, and the finals were amazing. 1610,343,and 1598 worked well together. Can't wait to see them all in Atlanta this year.
There were a lot of great plays at GLR. But one sticks out in my head, mainly because it was my team that did it but sill it was great. We were in an alliance with 1015 and 27. it was the second match of out elim against the powerhouse alliance of 1503 1114 and 67. we got smashed the first match...mainly because they won auto mode. (they got like a 30 point advantage the first match to start off.) The second match we come out shooting. we hit all of out balls in auto mode i think. we were just on target with every ball. we won auto mode. it was sweet. then we continued to go through the match, with retaliation from 67, to shoot and make balls. we would have won the match except for a last minute rally from 1503 and 1114. they put in like 7 or 8 balls at the end. 27 did manage to get up the ramp. we lost 59-49. it was such a sweet match.
Jeremiah H
14-03-2006, 11:30
We had two quite memorable plays at Pitt this weekend-
First one was when we lost our right side drive chain and our awesome driver (John, the "baldheaded beast :rolleyes: ") still managed to get us up onto the ramp, allowing our alliance to score that sweet 25-point bonus that won the match for us.
The second and most interesting was when we were in a huge hurry to get up onto the ramp towards the end of the time and there was a poofball sitting at the base of the ramp right in line with our wheels. Rather than maneuver around the ball, John asked for low gear and gunned it up the ramp. Well, the ball turned our bot sideways and there we were on the ramp, the low side wheels touching the carpet and the other, high side wheels were being held up off of the ramp by the poofball. I am thankful that our CG is so low or we would have tipped then, but with a 103 lb. drivetrain, we were fine, anyway, John gave the bot a twist with the joysticks and all at once I saw our bot spin, the poofball disapear, and our bot more or less jump onto the ramp. I found out when we went to take the bot off of the field that in the process of spinning, the ball had gotten shoved between one of our go-cart tires and a crossmember of the frame (about a two inch space) and smashed/swallowed/shoved up into the bot. When I found it, the ball and been smashed down to about half of its original size and was shoved up between the top of our frame and bottom of our circuit board. :eek:
Any toughts/comments? :cool:
xtremehumanheat
14-03-2006, 12:45
Just wanted to hear stories of amazing plays. In trenton, during one quaterfinals between mckee 522s alliance and robbes alliance it was so exciting. The first match, McKee had great autonomous and got all 10 balls in. During the second match Robbe changed their autonomous so they came and blocked McKee's balls. No 522 couldn't get balls at all, so everyone just watched as all the balls they could have just bounced off Robbe. My sympathies. During the third match, up comes 522, here comes Robbe to block, and then out of nowhere, comes some other robot, can't remember, on 522's alliance and knocks Robbe over on to its side. McKee was able to then score all then balls. Absolutely amazing.
See now what happened was that wanted to get to the other corner goal on the other side of the field. Since we were lined up in the middle position we couldnt score from behind our partners and thought wed do better aiming for the far corner goal. Our collision with robbie was not planned because our robot's drive train drifted to the center again after we thought we fixed it.
StephLee
14-03-2006, 18:25
We had two quite memorable plays at Pitt this weekend-
First one was when we lost our right side drive chain and our awesome driver (John, the "baldheaded beast :rolleyes: ") still managed to get us up onto the ramp, allowing our alliance to score that sweet 25-point bonus that won the match for us.
The second and most interesting was when we were in a huge hurry to get up onto the ramp towards the end of the time and there was a poofball sitting at the base of the ramp right in line with our wheels. Rather than maneuver around the ball, John asked for low gear and gunned it up the ramp. Well, the ball turned our bot sideways and there we were on the ramp, the low side wheels touching the carpet and the other, high side wheels were being held up off of the ramp by the poofball. I am thankful that our CG is so low or we would have tipped then, but with a 103 lb. drivetrain, we were fine, anyway, John gave the bot a twist with the joysticks and all at once I saw our bot spin, the poofball disapear, and our bot more or less jump onto the ramp. I found out when we went to take the bot off of the field that in the process of spinning, the ball had gotten shoved between one of our go-cart tires and a crossmember of the frame (about a two inch space) and smashed/swallowed/shoved up into the bot. When I found it, the ball and been smashed down to about half of its original size and was shoved up between the top of our frame and bottom of our circuit board. :eek:
Any toughts/comments? :cool:
I remember both of those. Those were some amazing ramp runs, really nerve-wracking to watch. We had an interesting ramp experience too, in one of the semis I think. We were over a bit too far, last bot on our alliance to try for the ramp, and we were caught just a bit, like two inches, on 1370's bumper. A last-second (literally) move by our driver got us up there, but I honestly didn't think we were going to make it. That won us the match, too, if I remember correctly. (That ramp always scares me, it's like it's just daring you to try and get up...)
Another fun one was in match 5 of Friday. It was a two-on-two match, two robots didn't make it to the field. Us (1629) and 1727 against 1370 and 365. We knew we'd never beat them unless we played some darn good strategy - and we DID. The best part was the both of us, neither of us very good pushers, holding MOE back together on our end of the field until time was nearly out, then both of us getting onto the ramp to win the match.
My absolute favorite play, though, was in autonomous mode of one of the elimination rounds where we had to do a re-start: Our autonomous mode had been shoddy all weekend, lighting problems as well as problems with the actual camera; we got it working and sank 5 of the 6 balls we shot in autonomous that match. It was an amazing feeling, I'll never forget it.
I would have to say one of the most amazing plays at FLR would be the High Score Match of 109. Just imagine 229, 1126, 340 all lined up to shoot at the free-for-all round. As the light turned on bam! all the balls went either to the goal or out because there was so many balls going in one area! was amazing.
I hate to disagree with you but the High Score at the Finger Lakes Regional during qualifying matches occurred with 229 (Division by Zero), 1126(SparX) and 1518 (Ulterior Motive- Harbec Plastics/Palmyra-Macedon High School)
With maybe two seconds left the Team 1518 Robot made it onto the ramp after being blocked, with all three alliance robots finishing on the stand- They had either 110 or 130 points- I can't recall which.
I remember it vividly because it was the highlight of our weekend- ....(other than being picked by the 8th Alliance)
The crowd went nuts at the score
Team 1518 Parent/Mentor Harry Ramos :cool:
Employee of Xerox Corporation
what match number was that? I'd like to watch the match on here but i need to know which one it is :P
http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2006/movies/florida/
it was at the Finger Lakes Regional in New York, not the regional in Florida. Sorry for the mix up. If anyone has that specific match or the Finger Lakes Regional on the internet please post because i would like to see it.
Our Team has video Taped the whole Finger Lakes Regional so I'm in the process of digitizing it but I may need to find something to compress the files since they are about 700 MB each match first so it's actually downloadable. I'll see how far I get
Dylan Gramlich
16-03-2006, 17:23
I hate to disagree with you but the High Score at the Finger Lakes Regional during qualifying matches occurred with 229 (Division by Zero), 1126(SparX) and 1518 (Ulterior Motive- Harbec Plastics/Palmyra-Macedon High School)
With maybe two seconds left the Team 1518 Robot made it onto the ramp after being blocked, with all three alliance robots finishing on the stand- They had either 110 or 130 points- I can't recall which.
I remember it vividly because it was the highlight of our weekend- ....(other than being picked by the 8th Alliance)
The crowd went nuts at the score
Team 1518 Parent/Mentor Harry Ramos :cool:
Employee of Xerox Corporation
it was 110 i rember that it was amazing u guys scored like 20-30 just in the corners, played some D then got on the ramp just to finish it off
Alex Cormier
16-03-2006, 17:33
I hate to disagree with you but the High Score at the Finger Lakes Regional during qualifying matches occurred with 229 (Division by Zero), 1126(SparX) and 1518 (Ulterior Motive- Harbec Plastics/Palmyra-Macedon High School)
With maybe two seconds left the Team 1518 Robot made it onto the ramp after being blocked, with all three alliance robots finishing on the stand- They had either 110 or 130 points- I can't recall which.
I remember it vividly because it was the highlight of our weekend- ....(other than being picked by the 8th Alliance)
The crowd went nuts at the score
Team 1518 Parent/Mentor Harry Ramos :cool:
Employee of Xerox Corporation
My bad, still both of those matches were amazing.
Dan Petrovic
16-03-2006, 18:38
Here are some stories boasting our own awesomeness :D :D :D :D
1) It was a match on Saturday morning of the BAE GSR. We were paired with 1138 and 1247. Our robot was build in the wider-than-long orientation so we couldn't get up the ramp. It was a fairly boring game cause there were few robots that could score until we agreed to have 1138 push us up the ramp.
1247 got up first, then we were pushed up, and in the last second of the game 1138 managed to find themselves on the ramp. The sound that erupted from our team was incredible. It was such a good feeling to be able to get up the ramp.
We would have tied had 1138 not gotten up the ramp.
2) A match on the Friday of the BAE Regional. We weren't feeling to good cause our robot can't score, plus we ended up going up against one of the strongest shooters. Our programmer said that it might not shoot, and that he wasn't sure yet. So, we angled our robot towards the path of the sharp shooter and collided with them in autonomous keeping them from scoring. Their plastic omni-wheels didn't help the situation as we then proceeded to push them all over the field.
3) Again, the BAE Regional. I forget all of the match details, and what teams were involved. We were queing for the match where we got on the ramp. through a series of odd and confusing events, five 'bots find themselves not in their intended orientation amongst the ramp on the red alliance's side. A picture was posted as "Great Defensive Strategy" or something like that.
Tim Arnold
16-03-2006, 21:18
My favorite play might be a little biased but it was autonomous mode in the semi final match at UCF regional. 357 1523 and 1902 we were playing 233 190 and 744. 357 went out to hit pink and got picked by 190, but 1902 went and dumped 10 balls in the corner like they always do, but 1523 randomly started shooting 7 out of 10 balls into the top goal. They had never shot before from the center, they knew they had the range but never once actually tried it. They lined it up for the first time and made 7 out of 10 balls! absolutely stunning everyone in the stadium it helped lead us to a victory in the semi finals and propel us out to finals.
The coolest auto was 190 and 233 in thier first qualifying they came out and each shot like 8/10 balls into the blue center goal, scored a staggering amount of points in auton.
Actually... we worked on that auton quite a bit before it just magically worked ;) . The arm band's power was increased as well as the trajectory, and as far as I know a bit of practice went on outdoors. We were worried about the speed limit, but it didn't seem to be strictly enforced (we were not shooting hot, just close after the increase (11.6 m/s-ish) heh, we could still go faster/farther if we want to).
But trust me, our whole team was ecstatic after that first test. I would guess that 3/4 of the team figured it wouldn't work the first time :D . Just glad it worked out in the long run!
Probably my favorite auton periods involved 86 spitting into the goal all of their balls within just a few seconds. Also the time when 86 got blocked in auton was pretty sweet (I think it was by 1345).
WernerNYK
16-03-2006, 23:59
Not to be biased, but my favorite autonomous plays have been whenever we (190) go out to do our thing, and another robot aims at us and hits us, sending us off track. Then you see our turret (with 450-degrees of available rotation) find the light, lock-on, and start firing again, wasting a max of one-ball during the initial collision. It's quite a site to see! :yikes:
If you wanna see for yourself: http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2006/movies/florida/fl_031.wmv
Although it was cooler to see in Match 39, but the camera doesn't really focus on us.
There were a lot of great plays at GLR. But one sticks out in my head, mainly because it was my team that did it but sill it was great. We were in an alliance with 1015 and 27. it was the second match of out elim against the powerhouse alliance of 1503 1114 and 67. we got smashed the first match...mainly because they won auto mode. (they got like a 30 point advantage the first match to start off.) The second match we come out shooting. we hit all of out balls in auto mode i think. we were just on target with every ball. we won auto mode. it was sweet. then we continued to go through the match, with retaliation from 67, to shoot and make balls. we would have won the match except for a last minute rally from 1503 and 1114. they put in like 7 or 8 balls at the end. 27 did manage to get up the ramp. we lost 59-49. it was such a sweet match.
Nice work :) We were indebted to 27's and your strategizing before the match (other than that it didn't leave time for food before the match ;) )
We apparently lost that match by the smallest margin of any in the eliminations except for one. (and that one was a loss for them, where apparently the twins' treads again both broke down :eek: )
Jherbie53
17-03-2006, 21:11
Today at the boilermaker, team 85 and 135 filled up the center goal. It was backed up with about 4-5 balls that waiting to drop down from the angle part right before the tube. This was one of a couple highlights of our day for team 85.
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