Defense at Championships
 

With the major capabilities of blockers in UA I thought that it might be a good idea to start a thread showcasing the abilities of defensive robots that will be attending Championships.

Information to Showcase

Type and strength of drive-train

Expertise of Drivers

Height and Strength of FCS blocker

Climb and/or Dump points

How good can you shoot?!?!

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I know 2789 is gonna shut down Newton with their D. You are just not gonna get past them

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what are their capabilities?

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Thanks, we're looking forward to putting up an aluminum curtain defense and causing a lot of stress and frustration for opposing teams ;)

Information to Showcase 2013 Highlight Reel

Type and strength of drive-train 4 CIM, 12:1 Banebots Planetary, 6" AndyMark blue wheels, skid steer

Expertise of Drivers Rookie driver with 2 Golds and a Silver this season...he also helped coach 4610's defensive play through the finals at the Dallas Regional to help them win a Gold in their rookie season

Height and Strength of FCS blocker Making modifications to version 5 of our blocker for this season...we are working on a blocker that will allow us to go under pyramid, here's our documentation for what we took to the Alamo Regional

Climb and/or Dump points We hang 10

How good can you shoot?!?! We have a low goal dumper but thanks to our good friends at 4063, we are working on a shooter this weekend to bring to champs, so we will at least have an 18 point autonomous.

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How much defense was played in the rest of the country? I know MAR was very heavy on defense. There would even be double teaming on the best robots.

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1646 will be coming to Newton to play some hard nosed defense. We have found that because of our inability to score with anywhere near the proficiency of the top robots at our competitions that we are best suited to play defense. This is due to our chassis design and driver experience in defense. Our robot cannot be pushed by any single robot we have faced and routinely pushed two opposing robots with ease (this was because many times alliances would call their defensive robot over to try to play defense on our defense). Our defense was so stout that at our first regional some teams decided to try and feed station shoot instead of cross the field which is when we added our blocking wall.

Type and strength of drive-train - 4 Cim AndyMark SS gear boxes with a 6 wheel 1/8" drop center with 6 inch custom traction wheels.

Expertise of Drivers - Our driver is a 4th year senior driver who has driven every regional of his highschool career

Height and Strength of FCS blocker Our blocker is 1/4" lexan (LED lit of course) that brings our total block height to 59"

Climb and/or Dump points We have a 10 pt hang every time

How good can you shoot?!?! We shoot from the back left outside corner. 3's in autonomous so we will contribute 18 pts in auton.

Note. We played much of our first regional and part of our second doing whatever we needed to do to best help our alliance. Meaning if there was a robot with no shooter then we played offense exclusively. We could only make 3 or 4 trips per match and when we lost our camera we decided to quit shooting in teleop all together. We contribute significantly more points to the score differential by playing defense and won a regional due just to that. We hope that teams in St. Louis will see the advantage to a defensive robot as opposed to an alliance of 3 scorers which will be tempting with all the fire power that will be present at Champs.

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Team 1262

Information to Showcase: Half and Half Defender

Type and strength of drive-train : 2 CIM, 4 omni, 2 Kop (middle), tank treads, sideways defender (not a linebacker, but does not get moved sideways easily oddly even with omnis, the omnis when they do push our robot always keep our robot infront of them, so it works out)

Expertise of Drivers: 2 years and 4 years

Height and Strength of FCS blocker: Going to try to add an 84 inch window motor driven lexan shield

Climb and/or Dump points: We hang 10

How good can you shoot?!?! 18 point autonomous, and we try to make a minimum of 2 cycles even when playing defense (again half and half)

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So you're saying they're going to stone 1986?
This I gotta see!

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We had a lot of defense being played in Michigan some where playing good D on some elite teams like 67 33 469 and I never thought anyone would ever slow down teams so powerful but this year is the year to do it!!!

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We've learned quite a bit since losing to them in the finals at Hub City in week 1, both about them and about ourselves, but hopefully, like I mentioned in another thread, we'll be wearing the same color bumpers as they are when we're both on the field...otherwise, challenge accepted ;)

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The Immovable Object vs. the Unstoppable Force. There is no better show to witness.
Like I said: I can't wait to watch this go down.

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Our drive team has learned a few things as well, so this should be fun.

ditto!

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^ THAT'S why I LOVE Titanium :)

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This will be quite the match up for sure! Very excited!

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OK, so I tried editing the post above but couldn't, so here is the video we shot today to test the autonomous for our shooter...thanks for 4063 for all their help! NOW we're ready for champs!