Re: The 469 auto
 

Ball control will be key in the later matches. It will come down to who has the balls in which part of the field. An infinite loop is much less effective if there is nothing in the loop.

-Sam

Re: The 469 auto
 

From what I can tell 469 does not expand until Teleoperated, therefore if they are not in position they will not expand and will not get a penalty.

-Clinton-

Re: The 469 auto
 

Check 469's design, they have two chutes that point at either goal, and they can choose which chute the ball rolls down on the fly. Is your kicker foot 6 feet wide? Doubt it. ;)

Re: The 469 auto
 

A kicker that cycles that fast will probably incur <G30> penalties.

469 cannot change direction of the ball, while the ball is on their chute or they will incur <G45> penalties as their chute will be considered active.

Re: The 469 auto
 

Well, 548 won't do exactly what ExTexan and I would like to do... but we will still have a way to beat them.

Re: The 469 auto
 

But 469 can decide where the balls go before they are in their chute. Which they do with quite some skill.

Re: The 469 auto
 

Only if it extends past the frame perimeter. As long as it stays within the frame perimeter you can cycle it as fast as you like. There are quite a few robots out there that keep the kicker within the frame perimeter and can clear the 3 balls out of the far zone on autonomous in 3 or 4 seconds as they drive forward. I don't remember any numbers off hand but you can see it in several clips on The Blue Alliance.

Re: The 469 auto
 

Hopefully you'll have better luck against 469 with your secret strategy than you did against 51 ........

Re: The 469 auto
 

Haha, we thought they were gunna have the same problems they had at kettering, aka a tilted hang. Our strategy with them was to hit them after they attached to the tower to make them hang sideways, and therefor a dead robot for the rest of the match. Turns out they fixed that problem. Also the way that 51 and 469 do the loop is very different and in my opinion 469 is much easier to block and much more worth it. 51 has a great robot even without doing the the loop. 469 has never had to play a match, there drivers are inexperieced (I'm guessing), they have a slow, one zone robot. 51 is actually my faviorite bot so far this season! I hope I am not underestimating 496, I am amazed at what they did this year and still think they have a great bot... but they are beatable.

Re: The 469 auto
 

Thanks thats awsome to hear. We're very proud of our robot this year especially with the merger. As far as 469 goes I'm sure their drivers are more than up to the task of playing the game and we know they have a good kicker. There only weakness in that situation is they can't traverse the bump.

Re: The 469 auto
 

At least, that's what we think. I know for a fact that 469 has some tricks up their sleeve that they haven't shown yet. But then again, don't we all.

Re: The 469 auto
 

Aye.

-Clinton-

Re: The 469 auto
 

That is what makes this competion FUN!

Re: The 469 auto
 

Ouch....and oh so true. I still feel bad for 1025 and 3115, our Alliance partners and the teams that chose us. We had a role to play and didn't do it. We will never know if we had kept 51 from the tower like we were supposed to whether we could have defeated the HOT WINGS EXPRESS who beat all the other alliances but it still smarts!

But the sequel to "The Outsiders" was "That was Then and This is Now". We didn't have this strategy then but we do now. I personally saw our practice bot designed for it tonight and I am quite pleased!

BTW, rumor has it that 469 will show up without their diverting arrangement tomorrow and just play ball. Which they do quite well I understand. As do The Wings. I love the times before the games because everyone can trash talk....afterwards, to the victors go the spoils!

Re: The 469 auto
 

That was actually do to a mechanical problem, not something caused by "external forces." One of our cables was unhooked from the winch. We fixed it before the following match. We're pretty sure THAT won't happen again....

Daniel Ernst in his Detroit pictures has a great series of shots of you guys smacking us while we were lifting.