At WMR team 66, 322, and 27 lost the third round of the finals by one point. One bloody soccer ball...

this sux
 

On friday we had our first match at einstein after replacing our treads... Well turns out the apoxy hadn;t dried properly and we lost 2 treads and had to push a robot on metal rims (hehe we did it too). we found a solution before the next match... ya gotta love pop rivets

We did Ok.

We had 6 rounds (which we won) with teams that we never heard of before. (It's nice to meet team 308 when there on your alliance)

Round 7, we were with Wildstang. We were so pysched.

I still don't know why we lost.

As for good luck? 3 times in the pit (over the course of the entire event) one of the engineers pulled on the chain. 3 times it fell off. It appears one of our gears kept walking off the motor, but it never happened in a match, only in the pit.

Bad luck.....
Getting knocked out in the Quarter Finals (Is the first round Quarters or Semi's?), well we can't blame them, it's happened to everyone, but our alliance's control system was plugged in backwards, and they could not correct it during the match.

That was bad luck

We didnt have that bad of luck
We won all of our seeding matches - except the last one
Due to our only mechanical failure all year -
Right drivetrain failed in the final seconds
We were seeded ninth in archimedes and didnt get selected

I had a good time at nats, we did pretty good for rookies i think
cant wait till next season

Here is my team's story.

First match we break down, lose.

We find the problem and start working on it.

Second match we win big due to a DQ (130ish qp).

We continue to fix our problem.

We win big (130ish qp)

Work on problem...

We win big (144 qp)

Work on problem...

We win (90 QP)

We "fix" problem.

We lose a chain on the field, still win with 90 QPs

We "fix" problem

We break down but still hold a goal in scoring position, lose 20 pts.

We rank 5th in ARC after being in 1st most of the time.


Kindof a rollercoaster :)

we really had some bad luck:
our fifth match was on the newton field and we were playing just well. but then in the end we had 31 points; and our opponents too... so the judges looked for how many goals we had, balls in the goals, robots in endzones... and everything was equal !! they couldn't decide anything and guess what they did ?? A F****ING COINFLIP. so they tossed the coin and it landed on the playing field... leaning at the tether of one of the robots. we couldn't believe it. the coin was leaning slightly to the right and they decided then for the topside. unfortunately not our alliance :-( . now you can see what bad luck is....

You win!

Daniel, if you look at this score sheet you will notice that the "coin toss" is the last option on the bottom left corner..so it looks like what they did was exactly right.....the whole part about being caught on a tether is just kinda funny

Bad luck for T-190 at Nats..... We go through thursdays practice matches without a hitch...experimenting with different combinations of things....dual goal grabbing, driving with two goals in hopes that if we have to, drive to the other player station as they load up the goal with balls and anchor a few inches in front of them so they can't move...things like that....perfect grabs each time....friday comes along...and our first two matches, we watch as we drive through the goals our hook grab hold of one goal, then fly off as we kept going. It turns out that there was some geometry problems with the angles with which our hooks were mounted...nothing a drill and some spectra couldn't fix. We had also added a second tether for trying to control the score of the match to up our QP's, but we got greedy and helped contribute to some of the largest high scores in the Einstein division. Oh well...lessons learned, experiences had....now its time for the offseasons comps, and our first is less than two days away....we're pysched and ready to put a "W" under our belts.