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VCU Regional
As far as stacking goes, there were two teams at the VCU regionals that I saw successfully stack boxes.
388 stacked one on another using a salad tong approach. They could lift a box in any configuration. <Good Job Grundy!!>
435 had a 3 sided stacker with surgical tubing on a frame to grab under the lip of each stack. They appeared to only be able to pick up stacks in the up right position. They always worked on stacks whether they won or not. They created a 6 stack and won with it.
Humans created stacks of 5 and 6 frequently. Normally the stacks were created by a box or two being SLID across the floor to the other human player. Most stacks were placed just inside the gate. Boxes placed in front of robots, or in their paths, never seemed to make a difference on the VCU field. If the other fields have more of a lip at the bottom of the wire mesh, there could be potential for more obstruction.
As for teams always winning who get most of the boxes from the ramp, there were times when that is not what happened. Once it happened when I was coaching our team. I checked the scoreboard to see if we were ahead and I decided that we not to knock down our opponents' stacks. I was hoping to maximize our score, but they turned out to be ahead at the end. <Good Job 977!>
See you all at nationals!
Eric
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