Re: Michigan State Championship
 

I think their problems may lie elsewhere. They put up a ton of points when they were able to shoot.

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Congratulations to 469, 3539, and 217 on the victory! From watching the streams, I can tell it was hard-fought and well deserved.

Also, I loved the look of relief from 469's drive coach when the MC glossed over part of the 2010 history between 67 and 469 during the Finals team intros. I thought that was hilarious.

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Any word on who won the awards? The website doesn't seem to be updating.

EDIT: From the stream:

27, 503, 2337 are state chairman's

4810 - RAS

EI - 2604

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Chairman's award winners are 27, 503, and 2337.

Event winners are 469, 3539, and 217.

Rookie All-Star Award winner is 4810.

Engineering Inspiration Award winner is 2604.

The list of team qualifying by points (if I was understanding the webcast correctly):
1. 469
2. 2054
3. 3539
4. 67
5. 1718
6. 33
7. 1918
8. 862
9. 245
10. 2145
11. 2474
12. 3414
13. 2959
14. 217
15. 27
16. 3656
17. 2000
18. 3641
19. 2851
20. 2612
21. 2137
22. 1189
23. 70
24. 68
25. 2619
26. 314
The next 4 in line points-wise are 1684, 3572, 2767, and 3618. These are the ones the get to sign up if some from the above drop from my understanding.

note-some of these may be wrong, the webcast was blurry and numbers were small.

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

I find it unlikely that 1717 qualified from MSC as they are from California (your #5).

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Fixed. Was meant to be 1718, The Fighting Pi. Thanks.

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

That can't be right, did 33 really not qualify?

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Totally beats Canada. The average loosing score in quals (111) beat the average winning score in quals at Waterloo (107).

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

That's exatly what I just thought of!?!

1918 didnt make it either, I guess...

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

33 definitely qualified, they were the first pick of the alliance 68 was on (1718's) and did better in the district season and 68 qualified. I remember there being a list of 26 on the screen and Vikes only has 24 so it's safe to say 33 qualified.

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Yup, you guys are right. I went back and listened to the already archived webcast from FiM. 33 and 1918 have been added to my list and I'm much more confident in its accuracy now. Sorry about that. I think I skipped from 1718 to 1918 when looking at the list because they looked the same with the blur.

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

It was archived on the dptv website: http://www.dptv.org/programs/robotic...cmpgn=shorturl

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

No we are not regretting that decisions. It would make shooting 60" robot easier, but it would caused a lot of other problems for us. The biggest being, it would really mess with our ability to climb.

Other than the apparent reliability issues that showed up in the elims (see below), I am extremely satisfied with the design of our robot.

Issues:
- Frisbee caught in drive, bent a drive sprocket. Started throwing chains.
- Ran with only 1/2 of the right side drive for a couple of matches.
- Then the other half of the drive chain came off. We think the output shaft on the ball shifter was somehow getting pushed pushed in and misaligning the drive sprockets, causing the chains to come off.

- Shooter jammed in the last match. Just a fluke issue that shut us down. We probably shot between 500 -1000 shots this weekend, and it jammed at the worst possible time. :(

We'll get it all ready to go and hopefully make it more reliable for Champs.

-Adam

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Not gonna lie, I really wanted this win bad! We had a machine and an alliance that could have done it. This entire competition was insane. I'm not sure I've ever been to an event that had this level of machines, especially in the tournament. Losing scores of 190+ are just crazy.

It was great seeing all the awesome people at the event. Coming to MSC is almost like a home coming....just way to many people to list. Thanks to all the awesome volunteers.

Special thanks for Rob and Eric for taking such good care of us/our robot. You guys rock! Best FTAs in the world.

Congrats to 469, 3539, and 217. I'm not sure we could have lost to any more friends than this alliance. You guys were unbelieveable. If I could have gotten my head out of out robot's drivetrain, I would have loved to see the awesome power of this alliance. I will be sure to go back and re-watch your matches.

469 - Someday, someday, we'll get another chance to play together. Hopefully, that chance comes in 2 weeks. You guys are awesome to hang with at the competition. Our teams could not have more fun together! You guys are the best robot in Michigan.

3539 - Our Troy partners. If I thought we had a shot to play together, we would have loved to try it together again. You guys really pulled it together with that auton today. Just amazing.

217 - We were hoping they would over look you. We were all set to make the pick, until #2 snatched you up. You guys were hands down the best full-back we have had this season. I was really worried when we saw that 2337 was going to have to try and push you guys out of our shooting lane.

Mike and Paul - Congrats on winning together! Knowing you guys, it must have been both awesome and weird all at the same time.

Congrats to 27, 503, and 2337 on the Chairman's award! You guys deserve it.

To 2054 and 2337 - I'm sorry we had so many issues with the robot. It had been pretty solid up until the eliminations. This alliance had so much potential. I think we only unleashed it's full power once, in F1.

2054 - You guys were great. You really carried us there for a couple of matches. Once again our drivetrain issues (same @ WM-2011) ruin a chance to win with you guys.

2337 - So glad we could FINALLY get a chance to play with you guys. You guys played our fullback role perfectly. It's so nice to be able to get such a smart and reliable team at the 24th pick.

I need some serious rest....

-Adam

Re: Michigan State Championship
 

Labview!!!!

For Thurs+Fri, our cRio was having problems which was causing our auton to fry and break and our wheels to run at whack speeds which kept popping chains off. Dropped our 60Pt average to a 15Pt average. Fixed Friday night by re-flashing it... (we didn't know it was the cRIO and kept thinking it was a code issue)

Cant believe it dropped our overall ranking by 10. Our team is still planning to go to nationals though. I don't want to say that we're hoping that I AM Robot can't go, but they're our best bet for dropping out due to funding. Last year we were the 3rd sub and 2 teams dropped out. (or was it one? i don't remember :\ all i know is that we didn't make it).

We also didn't think that 2337 was going to even get close to getting to worlds so we tried to help them as much as possible to win Chairman's, and i was shocked when they were picked in eliminations, but they played phenomenally and deserve the spot that they got.