Originally Posted by Greg Needel

Ok a post of NJ.....so today I walked around for most of the day checking out the other robots and just getting a feel for the competition. Here are my thoughts for the practice rounds:

1) I can’t comment on the condition of the field because I was never on it but everything looked fine from the stands

2) Hanging- maybe 3 teams could hang every time but they were few and far between. I do remember specifically that team 716 could hang very well.

3) 2x ball....good luck, just like the hanging portion of the game very few teams could manipulate the balls. A few more teams could uncap the goals but in all the matches I watched I would say only 3 teams were successful in capping a goal.

4) Field reset- takes forever, much longer then any other game I have seen, most of this is because getting the balls in the drop bins is difficult because they have a tendency to bounce back out.

5) ball pushers - there were quite a few of these bots but today was pointless for them because during the practice rounds the "coach" from each team was on the field pushing balls to the human players. I am beginning to think that these bots will be the deciding factor of this year

6) Auto mode - ummmm non-existent a few teams tried and a few teams failed but the majority of the teams just sat there and blinked their team color light

7) Falling bots - it was very common to see teams topple over climbing the stairs and also getting hung up on balls

8) There was a very friendly atmosphere but way too quite to be a FIRST comp. maybe it was just practice day but not much cheering

Overall I am still very interested in seeing how this game will be played out tomorrow, I predict that most matches will be very low scoring and the team that hangs will win.

As for the Brazilian teams I saw them and the one with the little humanoid robot mascot's bot looks sweet and they seemed to perform well....

I will be around Delphi for a while so if anyone wants specifics on a team I will be glad to answer...

Originally Posted by robbekid

Good day for matches for our team (56)... we are 5-1 at the moment. The most interesting was between us and a partner vs 25 and 175(or whichever one RAGE is) amazingly won by us. We had to cap the goal with about 5 balls in it and hang on the bar and the final score was 115-75 because RAGE couldnt get the hang or it would have been a close loss... The most # of balls i saw drop into the goal was in our last match we got 8 balls into the goal which is 50% of the ball coral and thats it and we won the match just with that. Actually that was also the first time that our autonomous worked well. Cant wait to see rankings.. Hope everyone does well and enjoys.

Originally Posted by nuggetsyl

i think i saw you guy in the top 7 (56)