Thanks for an excellent experience at the Chesapeake Regional.
The venue was very nice (especially the carpeted pits!) There were several top notch competitors. The matches were exciting to watch. The regional planning committee did a great job of setting stuff up and communicating with teams and keeping us updated.
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Originally Posted by KGenson
Also what happened that forced so many delays in the eliminations? There was even a rematch that wasn't really explained.
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I think there were some challenges on the field, which cause delays as the ref's deal with them. We had to replay SF2-3 because of a field fault. Apparently something was unplugged on the hot goal for the red alliance. Luckily for us, the end result was the same. Of course, this resulted in us having to play 5 matches in a row and our drive motors were quite hot, pushing 150 F after the last match and the air compressor was about 160 F.
A sour spot for me: I didn't particularly appreciate being harshly accused by one team's mentor of breaking their team's robot during a match, especially when there's no way our robot caused the particular damage. We had even offered to help the team with any repairs. My team reviewed the match video that evening where the damage occurred and confirmed we never were near the damaged robot.
Some other items which could be improved in the future: I didn't really like the access restrictions to certain stair cases, as it made the trip to and from the stands excessively long. The safety glasses table on Thursday was refusing to loan any glasses to people with team shirts, despite the fact that they might be parents/family of teams, rather than team members or mentors (who should be allowed to borrow them too). We talked to the lead safety advisor, and I think he remedied the situation.
To end on a positive note:
We walked away with 4 awards: Entrepreneurship, Gracious Professionalism, and our first time ever with Industrial Safety, plus the Regional Finalist award. Thanks to our alliance partners from 1610, 4945, and last minute addition for the final match, 2421. This is one of the best elimination alliances I've had the privilege of being a part since I joined our team. Congratulations to the Winners, teams 1629, 2363, and 623. Congratulations, again, to team 1629 on their RCA win. Congrats to 329 for winning EI. Congratulations to 4949 for winning Rookie All Star. Good luck at the World Championship to all the winners.