Chief Delphi - 2012 Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage

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Re: 2012 Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage

Officials on the floor could easily dislodge the balls by pressing down (with a pole) on the opposite side of the bridge. This would lift up the poly where the ball is stuck AND it would not give an advantage to the robot trying to get onto the bridge from the home side.

No need to worry about the coopertition bridge since it would not harm one alliance over the other.

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Is there a place we can see some video of the competition ?

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Did you guys (teams at the scrimmage) think there were more (or fewer) balls in play that you anticipated?

2012 Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage, robot photos

Here are a few of the robots that were at the "Shake" - Sorry for the few teams that got omitted ( I really wanted a picture of the air cannon but my photographer missed it and some others). Thanks Aces High for running another AWESOME event!!! - the information gathered was invaluable, like the ramps were WAY harder to knockdown than our wooden ones. We are headed for a review on mechanical advantage today. Hopefully, before we go home we will have a ramp arm that can lift our robot off the ground and if we can't get the ramp down with that, then ???

http://youtu.be/Nr8TkIyfhYk

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Originally Posted by SciBorg Dave (Post 1129992)

Is there a place we can see some video of the competition ?

Posted earlier.

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Originally Posted by MooreteP (Post 1129730)

Here are some videos from the Suffield Shakedown.

Here is the FIRST coopertition qualification points scored of the season:
http://youtu.be/HBwPsmAPN5M

This is the Team 23 Robot with a cool shooter cannon:
http://youtu.be/i1VVEy0sNow

This a the first of the finals matches that shows some good shooting and both bridges balanced with two robots each:
http://youtu.be/zbmAYkPZJHI

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Originally Posted by Drivencrazy (Post 1129909)

What were you using to manipulate the bridge? I was wondering how differently the actual bridges acted compared to many that teams built.

What we used for a minipulater was a air cylinder attached to an aluminum angle (Not sure what size cylinder as i did not work on the but i will get that next time are team meets on monday.) then attached to the end of the angle we had an lexan wedge the would come down ontop of the bridge ( if you would like pics ill put them up monday)

Did you notice how this happened? Were they thrown under there by the human players or what? I noticed a few human players trying to bounce balls to their offensive halves but saw few actually succeed. Also didn't see many balls thrown.

very rarly the human player threw under the bridge often time robots hit them under just by driving around the field, and i saw one human player throw the ball the distance of the field once throughout the whole practice and qulifying match as to have balls thrown they would need to be scored and not many was scored, but during the eliminations many more balls were scored so the human player played a big role.

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I didn't see any bots intentionally push balls under the bridges to inhibit balancing...It was more of a flawed bridge design which allowed balls to collect under them, costing a few of the earlier matches/practice rounds crucial balancing points.

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Here's the most important video of the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJRccwt-xI

DANCE OFF!