What fun being the Week 1 guinea pigs was. Our pairings were absolutely dreadful this year at WAAMV. We were often paired with unreliable teams, of which had confused drivers and didn't communicate. Our event's game breaking problem? An FMS that failed at least 5 times over the course of the last two days, causing mass robot DC's, and not to mention that fact that the field broke down several times. In the end, we leveled out at 6-6 for Qualifiers, and loosing our Semifinal Games.
Drive Issues
Our ability to shoot was somewhat hindered by our team having ONE driver manning all the controls, which led to multi-tasking being a nil topic. We were easily able to be shoved around, (even though we're on traction wheels) and the fact that we couldn't set up our launcher WHILE driving led to wasted time being stationary. By next event we're going to install a 360 Gamepad onto our drive station, so I can load the launcher while our driver focuses on ball acquisition, and getting our butts to the goal.
Autonomous
We were pretty reliable on our Autonomous, missing about 4 or 5 out of 12 balls we loaded. We ended up being 4th on autonomous score, which led other teams to be interested in us once it came to alliance selection. Our code's rundown is Mast - 1 Sec - Drive 30% (2.7 Sec) - 3 Sec - Launch(.25 Sec) x3
Elimination
During Quarters, we were paired with 1294 (Top Gun) and 4579 (RoboEagles). 1294's bot was the best loading bot at our district, with a backboard that rebounds into the holding area, and let us get some quick assist points out. We were facing an alliance containing 2990, a robot that near-severely damaged our spinner. 2990 was their destined shooting bot, and as such, 1294 and 4579 pressed on them hard as soon as their assists counted. 1294 kept bashing them to the point that they got under them, causing 2990 to, technically, ENTER 1294's robot. That gave us 50 Foul Points. At that point, 3220 bashed 1294, toppling 2990 and giving US even MORE Foul Points.
As this is MY first year, I'm quite pleased with our performance. Because this is our team's 5th year, the last of our founding members have left us for better lands. As such, we have 8 members with 1+ years of experience. The rest of us (15+ Members) are Rookies and Freshmen. It's like back to square one. May luck bless us at Event Two.
To all of you guys, good luck!