Highest stack
 

I am curious, what is the highest stack that survived so far? I have heard that a human player stack of 8 has survived, but how about stacking robots? Any stacks higer than 8?

Dave

Stacks higher than eight? Made by a robot?! Bwahhaha! Thanks. =)

-Joel

Re: Highest stack
 

There were 8 stacks that survived at the UCF Regional, but I haven't heard of any higher than that. None of the robots at UCF could "build" higher stacks, even if uncontested.

Team 624 (CRyptonite) BUILT and protected a stack of 6 at the Phoenix Regionals.

Does anyone know of a larger BUILT and surviving stack?

Heh no stacks survived at SLR during the elims rounds. Maybe a stack of 2. At Pittsburgh our partner stole a stack of 4 and almost released it, but dropped it on the way down and the stack toppled. Other than that stacks didnt mean much

At UCF we made a couple stacks of 5 (by putting one box on top of a human player stack) 2 times during practice, and once durning an actual match.

The highest robot - built stack at UTC was 6

The highest stack I've seen, and the most successful stacker at GLR was The Hot Team (67). Their robot stacked 6 high but eventually got knocked down seconds later. I was amazed that they could stack 6 so easily.

during the practice rounds my team 302 was partnered with the Hot Bot 67 and they sucessfully stacked 6 high. We were in the finals and won with them at GLR but stacking isnt that important as all the teams that built bots to do so thought.

ya team 710 was succesful (sorry i can spell) in stacking 5, with me at the arm controls, :) and they lasted the whole match. we would of gotten more but the orientation of the box on top prevent that . Sorry i dont have a picture of that my little bro forgot to bring the camera out to a couple of matches

We could stack 6, we did it in one match and stacked 5 in two matches at BAE. We started with a 4 stack human player made and added to it. We also stole a stack and brought it to our zone and added to it. WE have made our own but only had time to make 4 high. We protect until last seconds then dump and dash.

Stacks of 8 is all I have heard about so far...

In Canada, team 1114 (WHOOOOOO!! You guys rocked. Go Stackers. Go you. Go us.) made a stack of 6 in quarterfinals. They picked up a human player stack of 4, protected it and stacked two more. Unfortuneately they lost the first match. Winning the second wasn't enough; they just came up 2 points short total :(

Well...
 

The highest stack i saw was at the GLR and it was 5 high and it lasted the whole match and the kicker is that it was a human player stack.

Who needs to build a stack?

At SVR, Team 115 MVRT, might not have stacked the highest stack but they in fact didn't need to build a stack. MVRT 115 took a three stack from the opponent's side, over the ramp, and placed it gently into the scoring zone. They did this not just during qualification matches but in the finals round too.


Thank you all for making SVR one of the best I have been to. In my opinion the level of GP was high and the level of commitment to FIRST was even higher.

-Steve Bronstein
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I am not sure what was the highest stack at the Philly Regional. I heard that T/Rex stacked 6 in a practice round. I spent most of the time in the pits. In our last match we finally made a stack. Grabbed two bins on the fly from the top of the ramp. Picked up a third on the other side of the ramp. Unfortunately we could not unload them, but it was cool to see the robot finally make a stack in competition.

Check us out at nationals. We are a purple and yellow robot with a tubular frame and an interesting crab drive. If we have time we will give you a quick demo in the pits.

at our silicon valley regional, i think 5 or 6 was the highest

At midwest, the highest was an 8 stack. Our team made one with wildstang and it would have remained, but they didn't cut the power early enough to anothe robot that went out of the field, we also kinda missed a block on another robot.

I don't think you'll see any stacks higher than 8... If you do then I gotta see a picture to believe it...

Simbot Sally at the Canadian Regionals. Take by one of the field reset team.

Made by a bot? I think everyone needs to specify whether or not the stacks were made by a bot.

I believe that Sally picked up 4 and added 2 more to the bottom to make 6

This stack was made by 2 human players.

The funny and yet upsetting part of that was that one of our engineers helped 1055 (the robot that was sitting near the stack the whole time and that got disabled for going out of the field) with their autonomous mode just before the match. If our team had known this we would have set that stack on the other side of the field instead. For those that want to see this it was match 55 of the Midwest regional. Andy our human player was heart broken after seeing that stack fall.

At Great Lakes Team 67 (HOT) attempted with their robot to stack 8, but something went wrong and they lost 2 bins and ended up with a 6 stack which they placed on the field.

The highest stack was 8 at the Sacramento Regional. It was human made and lasted for almost the entire match when the over team realized they were about to lose. It withstood about 6 ramming attacks then collapsed on the 7th.

Look at this video.. mvrt steals a human made stack of three
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=19803

STACKING
 

"Who Stacks?"...

"WE STACK!!!"

Though other teams may have stacked higher, Team 461, my team, consistently stacked, probably 10 to 15 times out of the two regionals and nationals that we went to.

We chucked our original design that would have been God. It would be able to stack 6-8 high and could still go under the bar. Instead we chose a humble design that worked a lot more. It usually stacked one on top of two to make it three, and we won a round with baxter at midwest for 250 qps. We stacked of course.

At the competitions, though, i haven't seen too many teams stack. Many, if not most teams have stacking mechanisms, but they don't use them. And though stacking 6 high or 8 high is good, it has to be consistent.

891 made from scratch a five-stack in practice at Nationals...

Aaron Knight
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Nationals stack
 

What about the stack that was made behind the fields at nationals after the divisional finals (if I remember correctly)!?!?!? I was pretty far away, but I think it was Simbot Sally that made a 15 stack :yikes: !!!!! It was just for fun, but it is a stack, is it not??

If someone has a picture of this, please post it! I have one, somewhere, but not scanned or digital, so I can't show everyone what I am talking about. Sorry.

Kev

i think they made a stack of like 16-18 in our warehouse(human made) i was at the main building... animating..

11??? I doubt that would last because it would be way too unsteady... Plus if you even touched the robot it would probably flip because of the unstability... I'd have to see it to believe it... I mean when I saw them stack 7 even that was way too unsteady... Adding 4 more??? I'm not too sure...

These 2 pics show the stackof 7 at Championships

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...gle&picid=5088

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...gle&picid=5089