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Unfortunately, atlot of 'not so good' things happened in our last match at GLR.

Not sure why 1114's machine did not score their keeper that match. Probably because it had to drive across the field to get to that light.

The reason we did not score that last match was completely our own fault. The first thing during autonomous is the arm is raised and the end effector flips out. We forgot to hook up the strap that pulls out the end effector. So needless to say it didn't flip out and the keeper was blocking the camera.

Other then that we scored every keeper we tried on Saturday.

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1114 couldn't score that keeper because, by the time they got to the bottom-level spider they were aiming for, 67 had already scored a keeper on the middle-level spider just above and 67's arm was in the way of 1114 being able to score. 1114 seemed to have trouble getting track on the lamp because it was across the field and at a troublesome angle to their starting position. For that reason, it took longer than usual for them to reach the spider and they arrived after 67.

Another interesting thing about that match: an opposing alliance bot - not sure which team - drove around to meet 67 in an autonomous defensive manuever - something we'd seen a number of teams do and something I was worried about. That move was not successful and 67 scored anyway.

In the previous match, 1114 tracked directly to a bottom-level spider and scored quickly. Then 67 reached the middle-level spider just above and scored. Two keepers - one just above the other - that was a thrilling sight to see!

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In the LA Regional the only team, to my knowledge, that scored in autonomous was 330 the Beach Bots. We got extremely close a few times. Of course those attempts were once we shut off the camera, pointed the robot at the rack and hoped the judges turned the rack to our advantage. We had to turn off our camera because we couldn't get the camera values to lock onto the green light and not the bright lights over the arena. We went around the first day asking teams if they had or used cameras. We found that about six teams had cameras at all, one team besides ourselves had one ready to use, two teams said that they'll be working by the end of the day and the rest said they were just for decoration. I think that 330, the only team that scored in autonomous didn't have a camera (correct me if I'm wrong). We're hoping the situation in San Diego will be better.

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We managed to finish the set point on Thursday. the autonomous was working just fine on the practice field Thursday night. but Friday morning in the filed the camper couldn't find the green light becks of really bright sealing lights. after working with the camera on Friday, we scored 10 times on Saturday (almost every single time.) , i think we missed it two times because the keeper wasn't preloaded correctly.
as you saw we were only scoring on the bottom row in front of us, but in Vegas we are going for the middle row, and maybe on sides of the rack so if there is another robot with autonomous in our side, we won't interfere.
:D :D :D :D

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At the florida regional we made 7 of 8 times in the qualifying rounds with the one failing did so because we did not recalibrate the arm (ran out of time).

In the finals we did 6 of 8 because there was no time to adjust the camera with it causing us to come short.

But overall 13 out of 16 times I felt good about it. Failures we do to adjustments needed, we are trying to solve that so we can have 100%.

Auto mode did make a difference.

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We Scored 3 of the 8 in the Qualifing matches that we were in and scored twice in the elimiation rounds. We are going to improve auton, until are next competition in West Michigan. We hope to show a lot better and hope to see a lot more keepers put up.

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Beach Bots was the only team to do it at LA

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Quite correct. No camera on the robot, just take aim and hope the refs turn the rack right for us.

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Team Voltage 386 in the Central Florida Regional:

Center Best: 6 of 7 attempts (sweet spot)
Reverse Score: 0 of 1 attempt
Side Score: 0 of 3 attempts

We won our first qualifier (Q9) with a score of 2 to 0 with only the KEEPER on the rack!

The one we missed was due to the foot swinging side to side in time with our autonomous retry. We went at it 2 or 3 times and it was always not in the center of the swing. An opposition 'bot had slammed the rack from the other side.

Reverse Score was driving backwards to the FAR side of the field, turn to face the rack, locate the light and go to score. We ended up coming in the edge of the side foot and missed our EASY button scoring trigger. We ran this Friday in our last qualifier as we were allied with Exploding Bacon (1902) and we knew from a practice with them that we'd collide in the center if we did our preferred approach.

Side Score was a newly written mode Saturday morning just in case we ended up in the finals with an autonomous partner (like 1902, which we did as a substitute for 108). We were supposed to back out, back turn into the rail, locate the light, and go in to score. Unfortunately, we turned forwards into the rack and were too close to maneuver to score. Came REALLY CLOSE all three times though!

We will be in Palmetto with corrections for the spider side miss and will have corrected the turns for Side Score. Watch for us!

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software & Coach

PS. According to Dennis, the field chief, we had the best autonomous mode in the competition, but I'd have to say that 1902 ran a really close second!

Re: How many keepers have been scored so far?
 

We made an attempt every match, but only once did we actually put it over the spyder leg.

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Today 1629 scored the first keeper at Chesapeake.:D 165 also scored in the same match. Then we scored again during our second Quarter-final match.

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648 scored 6 keepers throughout competition at the Midwest Regional. However, we were the only team to successfully move towards the rack with a keeper, I believe. We also got three in a row during eliminations.

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I believe that we scored a total of 6 or 7 times at the UTC regional... i don't really know.

thats pretty good considering that our robot's drive train and arm were shot for the first 5 matches...

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1369 got on 4 keepers (that I saw/recall) in the elimination round at peachtree today. I'm sure they got on others that I didn't see too.

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Detroit regional, based on what matches I could see (because my duties usually made me very busy around the start of the matches):

1718 scored frequently
33 scored at least once
314 at least once, after an agonizingly long wait till the last seconds of auton before they dropped
397 - did they score?
217 and 2283 tried, but never scored

I think I'm forgetting someone. Sorry.