Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

Actually, 118 helped out with 1429's minibot design and the DiscoBots 2587 created a 118 copy halfway into the regional. 118 was very helpful in discussing their design.

When 2587 faced 118 in the quarters, they attempted to use this shared minibot design but it did not climb successfully (76 - 72 match ) .

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

if 118 would like to share there minibot design with me the would be nice ;)

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

I saw a minibot from Team 51 on another robot once, but it didn't deploy.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

We shared our mini-bot with 716. We also gave them a partial deployment system and they vastly improved it. The mini-bot we gave them was a different design than our mini-bot, but is still sub 2 seconds.

They used it successfully in several matches but 2228's donated mini-bot made it to the top more than our donated mini-bot.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

We mentored 2 rookie teams this year and never even thought about building ourmini's together...duh!!! Well that is changing tonight! I have a love/hate relationship with those darn things! Hate how the motors burn up if you even look at it the wrong way and love it when they climb that pole!:D

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

We had ours on our own robot, 2458, and 2191's bot

it was pretty cool to see it on other robots

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

2158 was the only team that legitimately shared a minibot (twice) during qualification matches at Alamo, but unfortunately the team they shared the minibot with did not successfully deploy the minibot either match.

-Danny

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

We were on the Olympic side of the 100 team Seattle Cascade/Olympic dual regional playing on the Olympic field and we loaned 1 of our minibots to MRT 3216 who successfully deployed it on Cascade at least twice. We specifically sought out a team from Cascade that had a good deployment system that was compatible, just to test this.

It threw the field people a loop since their system wouldn't accept our team number. Which was the reason given why we were not eligible for the coopertition award at Cascade. Though I'm not sure why they couldn't do a write-in tally since there were exactly 0 other shared minibots successfully deployed and there was no coopertition award given at Cascade.

We also loaned a minibot to 2147 on Olympic who successfully deployed it 3 times in qualifing and at least once in eliminations.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

At Peachtree 122 shared their minibot with us (3573). We only got it on the pole once due to numerous issues with our deployer (wouldn't have mattered what the mini was like).

Despite our best efforts to inform anyone who would listen that we were using 122's mini before each match, they were not awarded the Coopertition award for the one qual match we did score it :confused:

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

From what I heard, there were one or two shares at St. Louis, but none were successful and there was no mention of the Coopertition Award.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

At Seattle Cascade the que'er did specifically ask 3216 if the minibot was theirs or loaned and if loaned the team that provided it, per the queuing form, as reported by the 3216 drive team.

At Seattle Olympic......

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

After selecting 1868 for our alliance, we immediately began working with them on getting their second minibot working with our deployment system. 45 minutes later we had it ready to go for our first quarterfinal match. Every time we attempted to deploy, it went up, I believe 4 out of the 6 elimination matches we played. Awesome minibot, awesome team, things worked out well.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

At Seattle Cascade, you weren't competing. You can only earn Coopertition points if you're registered for an event as an FRC team per <T03>. For Seattle Olympic, though, I'm not sure what happened there.

It looks like very few Coopertition Awards are being given out; I'm not sure why. Even in cases where somebody's eligible... I wonder if there are a lot of ties for the award, throwing off the count, or if people are just forgetting that it exists.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

Mini bots were shared at the Chesapeake Regional.

Re: Did anyone share Minibots?
 

The only minibots shared at Duluth that I know of were us installing a deployment mechanism on our alliance partner over lunch. In fact, using our minibot they consistently beat us up the pole by a few tenths, which is leading to a partial redesign of code. :)