[FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Check out this photo:



Best of all, the round ended in a tie!

Blue eventually won round 4 and went home with the Winning Alliance award.

At the first official qualifying tournament of the year, the "Scarifier" held on October 31st, in Fremont, California.

Techno Guards (2848) won the Inspire Award, and ScotBots (548) were the captains of the winning alliance, both automatically qualify for the NorCal Regional Championship in January.

4 more qualifiers scheduled in the next month!

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Great job!

Any video?

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Don't see a lot of batons dispensed for this match. Looks like teams are having a difficult time with those :P Was the entire match played more defensively?

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

The matches were very defensive! The team found out how difficult it is to get the batons a) out of the dispensers, and b) into the rolling goals when everyone else is there. Also the head ref was VERY particular about the control of goals rules. It always seemed to end up that all four of the robots were on the same side of the field at the same time too.

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Here are some videos i found, and from what i saw there was a ton of defense (it looked VERY hard to score) and most of the points were scored at the "End game" when the robots balanced on the bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KjHc2scOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyDDM-q4CJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-WL1nyariM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpaixjYd1jk

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Thanks for the info! So in this case it was the autonomous points that won the match?

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Actually, it was a tie...

On the next round, as is often the case, driving made the difference!

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

What was the average score of matches? What was the highest score?

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Highest Score at our Competition here in FL was 62 in the very last finals match of the day.

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

I was wondering, in the CA or FL competition did anyone get a rolling goal balanced?

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Not in CA so far... but there's a tournament this weekend!

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

The New Highest Score is 72

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

7 matches out of 20 had rolling goal balanced in the 2nd competition in FL.

Re: [FTC]: Finals Round 3 - First Quad Robot Balance of the season
 

Yes... Goals were balanced in California as well


Also, at the same tournament - batons were scored and dispensed in autonomous, including the doubler.



(BTW... the bridge in that picture is not normally bent.)

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An unrelated question -- can you please describe why your wheel base is articulated such that it can "open" and "close"? My students saw this on a video and were confused as to its usefulness.