*shrugs*
Well, we came close. I'm glad that I was able to put on a show, at least. I even got to do one of the wheelies on Saturday!
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Originally Posted by TD912
Wow, that last-second balance in Semi 1-2 was something! Score was 28-27 and Blue managed to double balance to win 28-47, literally at the last second...
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Yeah, that was crazy. Absolutely crazy.
I was shocked, and I was the one balancing!
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Originally Posted by Gnishi2011
I enjoyed the 195/333/369 second match strategy. Defense all the way.
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Yeah, we figured that their whole process of balancing the bridge was both unstable and time-consuming. If our alliance partners could delay them for a minute or so they would either have to really rush and risk messing it all up, or simply wouldn't have enough time.
Obviously that didn't exactly work out....
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Originally Posted by bduddy
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...Because 333 more or less died in finals 2 AND 3. I'm not entirely sure what happened to them, but I do know that something with their robot malfunctioned horribly in both matches. It probably had something to do with the vicious hits they were taking/giving.
Speaking of vicious hits, we're not sure when it happened or what caused it but at some point either during our second semi-final match or the first final match the potentiometer on our front-left swerve module came loose and caused our swerve module to malfunction (as in, it was virtually never in the correct location). As you can imagine, that made driving really, really fun.
The only reason we got flipped that match was because of that malfunctioning swerve module. I had extremely poor control over the robot, so I was totally unable to swerve or rotate out of the way. They just kept ramming and ramming us until they finally flipped us.
All that ramming they did messed the module up to the point where the pins holding the gear and motor in place got messed up, so what we ended up doing was
cutting all of the power lines going to the motors on the swerve module (both the swerve and drive motors). This turned this wheel into something of a idler, so I had a little bit more control of the robot in the next two matches (it was still plenty of fun to drive though, believe me). You could also say we turned that front-left swerve module into a very very expensive caster wheel, a mode that we are now lovingly referring to as "shopping cart mode!"
In terms of our problems Friday and Saturday, it was mostly a mystery FMS issue that will likely never be solved. Basically, any time we ran the autonomous program where we backed up to the bridge, we would run that normally then we would have no control over the robot in teleop. The times where we started moving like a minute or minute and a half into the match? Those were matches where we REBOOTED THE C-RIO in the middle of the match so that we could control it.
Eventually we just ran our two-shot autonomous program and that seemed to "fix" the problem, I guess.
Oh, and we never really attempted any 3-point shots on saturday because of an issue with our shooter code, the code that automatically sets the shooter speed based on the height of the vision target. We did eventually get that working but we still had some issues with our auto-aligning code, so I ended up manually lining up the robot throughout the entire elimination bracket on Sunday. Luckily that auto-speed code worked perfectly after a few adjustments though.
I do have to have to say now, it was pretty neat to see 125, 522, and 1625's crazy balancing method up close, and I like how over the course of the elims they got better and better. They were definitely a strong alliance. That first time they pulled the triple balance I was looking from the sidelines like "HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!" and to be honest I was pretty surprised that they counted it, but you guys rolled with it and made it work. Pretty neat to see.
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So, all in all, I guess we can't complain about making it to the finals after starting Sunday in FIFTY-FOURTH PLACE. Again, I'm just glad that we were able to get everything working an put on a show for everybody.