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That would be awesome! Thank you very much! We haven't yet been able to find anybody else that had full-field video!
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No problem! Ours was shot from the very top of the arena, so they have a good view of the field. We use the videos primarily to show the drive team their performance after a match so that we can discuss ways to improve. I found out on Friday that it was a lot farther up there than it appeared to be from the 5th or 6th row of the stands! After several huffing and puffing sessions to go pick up the memory card with match video on it, our video mentor took pity on me and started sending runners with the card. I was very grateful!!
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I'm very appreciative of your team, 2363. It was great to be allied with Triple Helix last year in St. Louis on Curie with 1983, even though we fell just short of winning a match against the powerful alliance led by 71 to have a shot to get to the semifinals. Any time you get beat by 71 in elimination rounds you can't feel too bad, right? We'd love to be allied with your team in elimination rounds again some time!
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The feeling is most definitely mutual! It was really great to see you guys again, and your robot was simply phenomenal!
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We're also thankful that there isn't any ill will as a result of the failed coopertition balance attempt with your team at the end of the day on Friday.
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The failed balance attempt was just one of those things. Things were rushed preparing for that match, but we knew that your team was an excellent match for us on the coopertition bridge. I was there when our drive teams exchanged notes regarding the balancing. Your team's approach to balancing was a little different than that which we had taken, but the logic was sound. You guys requested that once the bridge started to swing that we maintain position and let you make any of the necessary moves to steady the motion of the bridge. It wasn't until I got back up to the stands that I realized that this was going to be tough for us because we have our drive train motor controllers set to coast, not brake. This generally worked fine for the strategy of staying bumper to bumper on the way up, but doesn't work so well when you're trying to hold position on a moving bridge. When it came time to balance we got close, but our robot (somewhat predictably) moved causing the bridge to pivot more violently than expected. Our driver tried to correct twice, but overshot and drove off the bridge. We would have likely sustained no damage except that our "faceguard" snapped when we hit the floor and our shooter axle was bent. We had designed the shooter to make the axle easily replaceable and had a spare ready to go, so it wasn't really that big of a deal for us to replace it. In the end, we felt worse about the failed balance attempt than we did about any damage to our robot. Those are simply the risks that you take when you wish to play the game well! We're really happy that your robot sustained no damage in the incident as we are far more to blame for it than you guys were.
Best of luck to you at the Championship! We will likely have a small contingent there even though the team as a whole didn't qualify. We'll look you guys up and stop by to say hi!