[jvriezen]

We just finished the Lake Superior Regional. We (2530 "Inconceivable") were the first alliance pick of the #2 seed, 2169, King Tec. In the second elimination match we played, I believe we got as close as anyone to the best time (both time of Deploy+climb as well as clock time at end of climb).

We had a superfast deployment using preloaded surgical tubing (maybe <0.3 sec?), released by a cylinder under robot control at exactly the 10 second mark (its release had to be authorized by pressing a driver station button prior to 10 seconds). We also borrowed 2169's minibot during elims (they brought at least five of them to the event). Theirs was a faster climber than ours, but not by all that much, ours never lost a race in all cases where it was successfully deployed (which was most of the time, not sure of the stats for attempts/success/fails)

I was the drive coach, and didn't monitor the clocks for this, but I wouldn't be surprised if hit the top before the clock read 8 seconds in that second elim match.

I never would have expected a borrowed minibot adapted to another hostbot would be so effective. (Sat lunch we very quickly made some relatively minor changes to our deployer to adapt to their minibot mounting design, though we retained our 'turn on the minibot' mechanism.


John Vriezen
FIRST Team 2530 Mentor and Drive Coach