not to throw the subject off a lil. but only 3 weeks of competitions have gone by and from what i see u all built robots with high scoring capabilities. both stacking and dead recknoning / line tracking robots
no one team has screwed up at all. stacking machines at the NYC regional looked cool. i didn't see much stacking though. if anything i saw a lot of bulldozer machines espicially a look alike bulldozer from i think it was 1230 the leonics with their robot leo. hope i got the team name number and robot name right !!
if its one thing i saw teams screwing up on; it was their ability to drive up the ramp. many of the teams got stuck at the bottom / middle of the ramp. whether it was caused by a slow robots drivetrain or improper material used as drive material or they just over heated. i expected many of the teams to do belt drive this year but i see alot of wheeld robots instead.
Basically though no team has screwed up at all with their robots. and to add this competition this year calls on both stacking and bulldozing capabilities to make a high scoring match rather then previous years where teams relied on 1 type of robot to make a high scoring match
2001 - required a ball grabber machine that could grab and balance 2 goals with the remaining 3 robots in the end zone
2002 - ball grabber robot that can control 2 goals
2003 - stacker or bull dozer robots that can move boxes.
this is just my opinion!!
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Past FIRST Robotics Events that I proudly volunteered at:
FLL: NY State Competition '03
FRC: NYC Remote Kickoff '04 & NYC Regionals '04-'15 ,'10-'13 & NJ Regionals '06-'10, Finger Lakes Regional '09 & SBPLI Regional '08-'15 and the World Championship in '05 (Galileo Field) '07 (Newton Field) '09 (Practice Fields Attendant / FTA(A)), CeBIT Convention in '04 & NextFEST in '06 both held @ the Javitts Center, Monty Madness '07-'10, Panda-monium '08, B.Eruption '08 & '09, Ramp Riot '08, PARC '09 & '10, BR^2 '09 & Wol. Inv. '09 -'15
2015 FIRST Robotics Off Season Events that I hope to volunteer at:
Where is Wolcott Invitational
2015 FIRST Robotics Events that I will be volunteering at:
SBPLI Reg. & Championships
Volunteer Resume:
Alt & Lead Team Queuer, Field Repair/Reset, Field Setup/Breakdown, Spare Parts Attendant, Field Power Controller/Score Keeper, Co-Emcee & Official Scorer, Control System Advisor, FIRST Tech Advisor Assistant & recently Practice Field Attendant.