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Originally Posted by Coach Norm
We competed at Alamo Regional this past weekend.
We had a great time and were honored to be in the quarterfinals against 418, 16 and Rookies 3841. ....
Minibots proved to be the difference the later in the tournament it went. Rounds with four successful minibots did occur in the elimination matches a few times.
Many teams had minibots that would climb the pole but deployment proved to be very difficult. 118 has a very impressive minibot that is extremely fast, (if you have not seen it, check out Magic's minibot youtube) but they had difficulty getting it deployed during the matches. ....
Alamo had 17 rookie teams in attendance. Many of the teams did not understand all the rules, so it was very important to explain the some of the basic rules before the match.
Key points I noticed:
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3. Picking up off the floor is huge importance.
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12. If you have a robot who cannot hang tubes, push tubes forward to your alliance zone but not much closer than the towers since it will cause difficulty to maneuver to pick up tubes.
13. It seemed some aliances who had two/three teams attempting to score in auton could have difficulty if two robots ran into the driver station wall at the same time. The driver station walls would shake and rattle. I believe this might have caused some problems with lining up with cameras via imaging and/or with range finding of some sort.
LOGOmotion is a fun game for not the teams but the fans. The minibots are a huge fan favorite at the end game.
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3. I agree after seeing all those tubes on the ground at Traverse City.
12. If you cannot hang I would prefer defense unless your alliance is a scoring machine.
13. Encoders work fine for driving the robot in autonomous. I find it the simplest solution. I think it was the Killer Bees that had an autonomous that hung 2 uber-tubes with only encoders.