Originally Posted by Nitro-Guy (Post 851649)

Just got back from Atlanta... congratulations to the teams on the winning alliance! They played very well, and it was ironic that a pretty good imitation of our robot (2820 Longhorns) would end up beating us. :)

Power Surge had a great time competing, although we had a dissapointing end. We went undefeated in qualifying matches, despite dropping and breaking our primary robot laptop, having a battery charger break on us and a 12V battery burn up, and other strange problems that we didn't have all season. We were the #2 seeded alliance just before match 5/6, because #1 Unlimited had more ranking points than us and was also undefeated. So in match 5, we pulled one of our 2 puck-rack autonomous modes (which we've actually had since before the NJ regional, but have kept secret for strategy purposes :) ), so that in tele-op we could score for the other team and catch up on ranking points. We ended up winning that match 222 - 208, which was the highest individual and combined score at the World Championships. We ended up being the #1 seeded alliance going into elimination rounds, and won the semi-finals 2-0. However, during the last match of the semifinals, we somehow lost all communication with our robot, and it burned out both drive motors when it backed into a field wall and got stuck. We were able to replace both motors before our next match, however.

In the finals, everything went wrong. In the first match, a disconnected rotation sensor caused our autonomous mode to completely fail, and then we had a very strange problem that we still haven't been able to figure out. Even though the robot had full power in Autonomous mode, in tele-op mode the drive motors slowed to a snail's pace, even though we were using the same program and joysticks that had worked fine all day. This made it very easy for our opponents to block us, since we had enough trouble moving around without interference. Although we were still able to score some pucks, we lost the match by about 20 points. In the second match we had the same problem, except even worse. Our robot could only move at about 40-50% of its usual power, enabling our two opponents, working together, to keep us from scoring anything. Apparently our alliance partner lost communication with their robot, and so was not able to score either.

Ah well... that's the way it goes. We did the best we could, but some problems are just out of your control. It was a great and exciting competition, nonetheless. We had two awesome alliance partners for the elimination rounds, 121 Rhode Rage and 110 MFS Foxes, who were very gracious when our alliance was defeated because of our problems.

-Jonathan

Originally Posted by Rick TYler (Post 851179)

Thanks! Do we know if FIRST is ever going to post the complete match results and final qualifying standings?

It would be nice if FIRST would include the real-time match updates that they give the FRC fields.

Originally Posted by Nate Smith (Post 851779)

However, with the FTC program being managed to a large extent by the Affiliate Partners, and not FIRST HQ, the existence of a usable internet connection can not be guaranteed. I think, due to the different nature of the FTC program, the best we can hope for in a majority of cases is a post-event upload of all of the matches.

Originally Posted by Nitro-Guy (Post 851649)

Ah well... that's the way it goes. We did the best we could, but some problems are just out of your control. It was a great and exciting competition, nonetheless. We had two awesome alliance partners for the elimination rounds, 121 Rhode Rage and 110 MFS Foxes, who were very gracious when our alliance was defeated because of our problems.

-Jonathan

Originally Posted by The Gritz Boys (Post 851717)

We wanted to thank all of the teams for coming to Atlanta and it was a lot of fun.We hope to see you all next year! :)

-Brad