Originally Posted by Gil Huggins (Post 591711)

VCU was fun and Metalinmotion - Team 343 - was very honored to recieve the GM Quality Award. Unfortunately, we lost a laptop computer during the competition. If anyone found a laptop computer in a case and is unsure who it belongs to, we sure would like to hear from you. My boss is not happy....... Anyway, any leads would be appreciated. Use the contact information on our webpage at www.metalinmotion.com. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by blakwyte (Post 592596)

i'd say it was even fewer than that ... though i was in the pits or queing up alot and didn't see some of the matches ... definitely don't count on it. people were getting better at it near the end which resulted in maybe one ringer every few matches, which definitely doesn't make up for the huge amount of clutter you have to deal with.

Originally Posted by wdw_mkr87 (Post 592497)

does anyone know how many people were able to actually throw ringers on during the matches? our team is trying to work strategy for Las Vegas and Atlanta and we would really like to know if it is even possible to get a technique down like we had for scoring with the balls from last year competition.

Originally Posted by StephLee (Post 592628)

Not to mention the potential for ringing a robot, rendering it incapable of picking up another tube unless it can get that one off itself. I'd imagine that could be highly annoying, and potentially a strategy-killer.

Originally Posted by nukemknight (Post 592642)

1610 was capped by a ringer thrown by a HP in one of their practice matches, and the refs were slow to notice, and to tell the drivers. Their drivers were able to hang 2 ringers while capped, which ended up not counting.

Originally Posted by wdw_mkr87 (Post 592651)

yah we had one guy throw one on in the our last match with 116 and 435 in the quaretr finals and he will def. be throwing them in las vegas and atlanta i was just wondering: do you think it is illegal to throw them on a robot to not let them score i dont know how they could catch you as cheating but i never heard a rule for it

Originally Posted by Frinkahedron (Post 592761)

VIDEO!!

One of our team members taped all of alliance 2's matches during the playoffs and I just finished editing them together into one video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...032&pr=goog-sl

Gogo Teams 2068, 343 and 612!! :D


EDIT: You can also see the exact moment our wheel broke in the semis, at 8:45 into the video, the turtles pushed us sideways, bending the side of our wheel inwards towards the motor.

Originally Posted by Frinkahedron (Post 592761)

VIDEO!!

One of our team members taped all of alliance 2's matches during the playoffs and I just finished editing them together into one video.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...032&pr=goog-sl

Gogo Teams 2068, 343 and 612!! :D


EDIT: You can also see the exact moment our wheel broke in the semis, at 8:45 into the video, the turtles pushed us sideways, bending the side of our wheel inwards towards the motor.

Originally Posted by 1885.Blake (Post 592999)

Hey Frinkahedron - Any way you can put that video someplace from which I can download it? Or maybe mail a CD/DVD to me? I'll distribute it to 1885, 623, 2068, and 1895. - PM me - Blake