Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

To me, looks like they use the two sets of wheels (front and back) to suck in the RC, then flip it upright.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Yeah, I get that part. I'm confused by what they're using TO flip them. It happens so fast... like magic :O

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

I was assuming that in the act of sucking the RC in, it pivots at the stop on the bottom of the RC causing it to move upward.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Yep, confirmed it's magic.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Possibly they pull it in and catch the bottom to tip it up. Using the polycarb pieces they have in the front of the robot. I believe they added them after the original picture was taken.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

I'll take a close up picture of it today.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Simbotics has a Qualification average 142.9 while 2nd place has an average of 73.6...

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

I think they're moving the "lift belts" on the side downward which pushes the back of the can down while the wheels pull the container in.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Does anyone know how simbots ramp is tethered in the GTC Regional?

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Uhhh... Strap?

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

In eliminations it has been tethered to 1547. Before the first final you could see a member of 1114 set up the ramp then lay out a cord of some sort along the back wall, then the 1547 drivers connected a cord /cable from their bot to the one 1114 ran. Not a bad strategy, assuming 1547 was under weight.

I posted in the regional thread as well, but the other alliance having a team disabled in the finals for not being brought on field in the transport configuration made me wonder how this strategy is legal. 1114 clearly carried the ramp on the field independent from any robot, and then connected it to the 1547 bot once on the field. Doesn't this violate the transport configuration rules?

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

So was 1547 not moving on purpose? Was their only role to hold the ramp with some string?
Or is their lack of movement something else

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

According to the Webcast chat it was strategy, but I would wait to hear from the teams to be sure.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

2994 was disabled for extending into the landfill without a quick fix being possible (if they had moved back they would have been in auto zone).

We were instructed since Thursday to extend out of transportation configuration in queue as long as it was safe. That wasn't why they were disabled.

Re: Team 1114 - Simbot SideSwipe
 

Can't say I like this provision, but Thanks for the info, I found it hard to believe it would have been an oversight by 1114.