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Unread 06-04-2014, 11:07
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Re: 1000 assist points and we could have done more

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Originally Posted by Adam Freeman View Post
When you guys were doing your pre-match work with your alliance partners, were you modifying their robot or just detailing exactly how you wanted to execute the assists? Sometimes I feel like I am speaking another language during strategy sessions, based on in-match results. Just trying to understand what else might work to ensure we can involve all alliance members and still succeed on the field.

Could just be that I am not patient enough during the match.

-Adam
Adam,

We added features to robots and helped modify/remove features and tweak them before our matches at Troy. Also, typically I would spend a lot of time coaching them from behind the glass. Telling them when to move when the assist was counted.

See the following matches and teams:

Match 31 - Team 1914: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdrkuiIwN08

Match 71 - Team 4815: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZmdndPGj20

Match 75 - Team 3398: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9X1DyO6kpY

We ended up with 870 assist points (had 920 before the match 62 replay), which was the only reason we ranked number 1. The next highest assist points was 3539 with 760.

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Originally Posted by JosephC View Post
There was this ingenious design on one of the rookie teams this past weekend at Troy. They had a lexan box surrounding their main breaker, with a hole on top the turn the breaker off, and a hole on the side to turn the breaker back on. The holes were plenty big enough for their functionality, but were small enough as to where the breaker couldn't be accidentally pressed.
Joe,

That was part of our addition for team 1941, in a previous match a ball hit their main breaker. See match 31 (above) where it was added.

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