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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
Went 3 for 3 on Rookie All-Star awards, the kids really impressed the judges and other teams, we've made a strong reputation for ourselves as a team to watch for, got a visit from a PA congressman, and qualified for World Championships. Not too bad of a weekend but still disappointed in robot performance and missing elims, being a long bot stinks  .
Thanks for the kind words and emails from various teams.
A huge round of applause to 341's alliance for the most exciting eliminations matches I've had the chance to see. I am really hoping to see you guys in the same division as us at Champs.
Congrats to 11 as well for a great season so far, hopefully it is not over for you yet. I was sad to not see you walk away with the Chairman's award.
One more thing: It was a little ridiculous to still see teams losing comms and stop moving at this event. It seemed to even happen in eliminations, aside from the issues 1676 already mentioned with their robot. Were the lost comms for other teams determined to be field related or robot related?
Where was this field from? Was it NYC/CT? Internal MAR field? Rutgers field? |
I think Team 11 did wonderfully despite the communications issues that effected them and other teams.
It's my understanding that the field teams worked quite hard with Team 11 to diagnose the underlying issues and my deepest thanks to everyone that helped everyone to deal with it.
It seems the communication issues are a mix of problems many of them pointing back to things that adversly effect the power to the D-Link APs.
Some teams report replacing the PDB adddressed it, for Team 11 it seems to be the DC-DC converter.
I'm not convinced that there isn't a field related aspect to what's going on, but I haven't seen anything offical and I can't dig further till I can get my hands on that DC-DC converter.