Re: Defense at Championships
 

Nice stuff! I'm sure you guys are gonna be an early pick with the amazing package you offer!

Re: Defense at Championships
 

Nice; that'll make you even more useful as an alliance partner than you already were. And assuming it stays consistent, you've seriously upped your odds of playing Saturday afternoon.

Re: Defense at Championships
 

The hard part about being an amazing defender -- there's a very large chance that they'll be gone by the time the serpentine comes back around to the upper seeds.

In elims, I wouldn't be surprised to see an entire alliance comprised of robots that are easily able to delivery 26+ discs each -- so defense may be tricky.

Re: Defense at Championships
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oPsvq81n2A
:D

Re: Defense at Championships
 

Yesterday our team was talking about how at regionals we've been to we typically see second picks in the serpentine draft usually begin with selecting a third offensive robot because those seeds are concerned with the scoring capabilities of the top seeds, and defensive picks can sometimes fall to top seeds...this will be our first trip to champs, so I'm curious to see if that trend continues.

Re: Defense at Championships
 

While 1912 has been an offensive robot through our first two regionals, we are making some modifications to the robot, specifically adding a large net that will deploy up to 60" at the start of a match to block FCS, or to sit in front the other alliance's pyramid and forcing pyramid shooters to go on a corner.


Type and strength of drive-train: 2 AM Super Shifters geared at 30:1 and 7.5:1 with 6, 6" High traction wheels, belt driven.

Expertise of Drivers: 2 years each

Height and Strength of FCS blocker: 60", simple net to deflect discs

Climb and/or Dump points: 10 points

How good can you shoot?!?!: Make 18 in auto from corner, and can make 3-4 cycles in to 3 point goal.

Re: Defense at Championships
 

1781 has pretty good defense.

Drivetrain:4 CIM Andymark SuperShifters drop center tank. 6" Andymark wheels with high traction.

Driver: Senior who has been the driver since his sophomore year.

Blocker: A 59" blocker that can extend to 82". Also blocker is two-directional so we can block facing the FCS or perpendicular to the FCS (defending robots of FCS tend to turn robots with drop-center sideways).

Climb: We climb for 10.

Shooting: We score 3 in autonomous and are pretty decent in teleop. We had the seventh highest OPR at Midwest and I believe around the fourth or fifth highest discs scored during teleop.

Re: Defense at Championships
 

This is probably the only effective defense I have seen played on 1986:

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2013okok_qm21

Re: Defense at Championships
 

Well, you'll get a chance to see in Newton Quals 6...assuming this "preliminary" schedule becomes the "official" schedule.

Re: Defense at Championships
 

They gotta stone both 1986 and 2826. That's a really tough assignment for any robot.

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Can't wait :D

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What is this "preliminary" schedule you speak of??

With around 100 teams per division and a 9 match schedule (?), your chance of going up against any other team in the division is just over 1 in 4. Your chance of being paired up with any other team in the division are under 1 in 5. You will never see over half the teams in the division during qualification matches.

(Edit: Nevermind about the "preliminary schedule" - I see the blogpost)

Re: Defense at Championships
 

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr...atch-schedules

...and we only get 8 matches...