What a weekend! Huge thank Thank You to the WPI crew and all of the volunteers who put in the hours to make BC14 amazing! It was another flawless event and really is one of the finest competitions FRC has to offer!
Big thank you to
195 for asking us to join your alliance it was a pleasure working with you guys! You have one of the deadliest FCS and can still cycle with the best. Good luck to the rest of your 2013 season, hopefully we can play more with each other!
To
663 you guys were phenomenal! These guys worked extremely hard in the eliminations playing a role they hadn't experience much this season and kept excelling the further we went in the tournament. These guys were great to work with on the field and were serious about making sure their robot was 100% ready to go. It would have been impossible to win without your last second hang in finals match 3!
Congratulations to the number 2 alliance of
1519,
126, &
121 for a spectacular 3 finals matches. It was shocking to see the three of you playing considering the extremely deep Battlecry history you three have combined! The finals were one of the most intense matches this season with constant strategy changes. The blue alliance always had another trick up their sleeves with 1519 blocking 195 and 121 blocking our shots at the pyramid in between their cycles. The intensity of the finals was truely measured in that the final score in match number 3 came down to
one point!
Thank you to all the teams who offered assistance to us during the semi finals and finals (
126, 1519, 2168). For those who are wondering in the first semi finals match our driver felt the drivebase didn't have all the power it should have had. After the match we checked all the wiring and without a source of the problem assumed a bad battery was the cause. During semi final match 2 the problem was increasingly worse with turning difficult/laggy and our robot refused to drive in high gear (even low was painfully slow). While waiting for the finals to begin we tested all of our cim motors assuming one (or two) had failed and after ensuring all were in working condition discovered the source was overheating motors! The long elimination tournament had fought back with our robot not getting sufficient time to cool. The problem continued in finals match 1 and before finals match 2 we got ice packs and some air flow during our time out. This solved our problem and in finals matches 2 & 3 (after more ice) our drivetrain ran as it should!