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Originally Posted by toddhans
Thanks for posting this one before we meet on Wednesday, Craig. I could not figure out what exactly happened when watching it over the computer as it switched back and forth a lot. I figured we had a short or something similar to qualification. I only watched these matches, besides my cheering interest, in a scout kind of way. I did not take the official's point of view, so I was quite surprised when we were the winner. I do see now how we were disconnected causing at least 50 points of the penalty in the referee's eyes. It will be interesting to watch our matches as a drive team and a build team to see what direction the information points us for the rest of the season in St. Louis and at Minneapolis for the MSHSL tourney.
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Yes-- Match 3 is still a puzzle to me and I suspect sadly for most. Just listening to the reaction to the score in the video shows no one on 3018 was expecting a win. Somehow the refs gave us 100 points and they thought about it a *long* time (2.5 minutes at least), so clearly they had their reasons. I'm not sure if they reviewed video during that time or what. I did not see anyone from our alliance in the question box, but honestly I wasn't looking. It did not seem like anyone from our alliance was anything but disappointed that our robot stopped functioning for the majority of Telop. I know Andrew (our driver) reported they were on their way back to the pits planning the pack-up.
For those curious-- the short Todd speaks of happened in the last round on Friday. We had a jag burn out on us two matches earlier in Q49 (killing the CAN bus and thus essentially our entire robot) and sat idle for the majority of Telop (very similar to Quarter 2 Match 3). But fortunately for 3018, the opposing alliance did not even match the 55 point our alliance put up in autonomous so that failure did not cost us. Team 2081 and 3081 secured the win for our alliance.
We replaced the burned out jag with a brand new jag and it functioned fine for Q54. But in Q61 (a match we were really looking forward to because we were going against our good friends from 1714), the jag went haywire. It killed the CAN bus so we could not control the robot and kept running its motor. The drive team rebooted the CRIO during the match and the motor kept driving the entire reboot and of course the CAN was still dead after the reboot. The match ended and the motor was *still* running.
After the match we had an inspector in the pits checking everything over and it was behaving fine. Best guesses were that either some debris fell in the jag and fell out again when we moved it to the pit (unlikely), or that the jag had some sort of intermittent mfg defect. We replaced it again and the bot was fine for all day Saturday.
So that was 3 matches we sat and watched our robot idle for nearly the entire Telop period-- well not *completely* idle on the one I just described as the ball collector kept spinning that entire Telop (and *beyond* :-)).
This was our first visit to the Wisconsin regional and it was certainly a very memorable one. I know the team thoroughly enjoyed the experience, despite coming up a bit short in the finals and despite the unfortunate way the quarter finals ended.
As this thread attests-- it was a great regional.