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Re: Kettering District!

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Originally Posted by msaunders (Post 1138683)

Kettering Finals Match 001

Kettering Finals Match 002

Kettering Finals Match 003

Those were AMAZING matches. In Match 3 the winning score was DOUBLE the highest qualifications score! Great robots from both alliances, but I really liked how 3322 could score their entire alliance's worth of balls in hybrid!

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Here's a video of one of the matches at Kettering.
Red Alliance: 1322, 33, 3534
Blue Alliance: 322, 3302, 1243
Final score: 25-10, Red Alliance wins
Match video.

Re: Kettering District!

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Originally Posted by J_Miles (Post 1138582)

I'm actually quite surprised: our autonomous mode seemed to be more consistent with more worn balls, so when setting up pre-match, we often tried to get less-new-feeling balls. Still, at the end of the competition, the balls were still in surprisingly good shape. Especially, that is, compared to some of the balls we had at our shop. I'm personally not too worried about ball wear.

It seemed like the ball condition REALLY didn't change our autonomous mode all that much. The only time we missed our autonomous balls was when we didn't have the RPM set correctly for our autonomous code (a discrepancy between practice bot and comp bot, that we didn't figure out on the practice field until later), and when we doubted our method of lining up our robot.

Re: Kettering District!

First of all, thanks to Kettering University and the FIRST volunteers who made this competition work. Team 2337 has been attending the Kettering Regional or Kettering District for all of the five years of the team's existence, and it truly means a lot having a competition in Flint, as well as getting to see old and new friends again.

With that, comes the shoutouts. Thank you to our alliance members, 33 and 4294. 33, it has always been a personal dream to be competing with you, not against, in eliminations. Your team has always been an inspiration to me of what it means to be a FIRST team, from the bee-utiful robots to the outreach and inspiration you provide to other teams as well. Your robot this year is fantastic; just as well-performing as its paint job. From the intake/bridge manipulator to the turret to the "stinger", it was great to see you guys performing on Saturday.

4294, I am impressed with the capabilities of your team and your robot. You guys undertook building a custom drivetrain (three-wheeled with a front wheel on a caster like a tricycle) and a great bridge manipulator. Yet, you didn't try to be the "jack of all trades, but master of none"; StarTrec stuck to what they could design well, and executed. Thanks for being a integral member of our alliance.

Then there was the finalist alliance: 3322, 862, and 3601. 3322, you guys have a simple, yet elegant intake and shooter. Congratulations on such an effective design. Lightning, I love your robot's design, and that it's intended to shoot from the feeder. It's a scoring machine! 3601, it was great having you at Premier this build season, and watching your robot become the best you guys could make. Like 4294, you guys stuck to designs you know you could do well, and didn't try to overextend yourself. I have the highest respect for your team (and for the award you gave us :D ). Your whole alliance's hybrid mode was simply terrifying. The prospect of being down 2 balls (12 points) at the beginning of Teleop was scary.

I also want to thank 1504's programmers, for helping me with Java and the WPI library as I struggled with code for another team. On 2337, we use LabVIEW, and seeing a text-based language being used gave us a lot to think about.

And then there was 1684, on the #2 alliance, who allowed me to borrow a team laptop (with their code open in NetBeans), to write the Java. This was an astonishing feat of co-opertition, and I cannot thank you enough for the opportunity. It was also fantastic to see your team's growth over the last couple of years, from Breakaway to Logomotion to the devastating robot this year, that held the number one ranking spot for a long amount of time. It's only a matter of time before you guys have a district win under your belt.

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Yesterday was an amazing day for the Spartan Sprockets (Team 3601). In the last few preliminary rounds our drive team did a really good job of balancing, but with a qualifying round ranking of 32 we were on pins and needles wondering if anyone would notice our capablities. Luckily someone did notice us and in the short period of time before the eliminations rounds our allaince was able to combine our robots to put together an amazing autonomous strategy. It was truly an exciting expereince.