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Originally Posted by Jcarbon
You guys were great in that match! That was the furthest a team has ever jumped up in my pick list in the last qualification match.
How do you line up for a shot? Do you have a camera? What were you working on during the competition to get it tuned up?
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Thanks for the compliment! For lining up for the shot, we have a Microsoft Lifecam that is lined up so that the top 'prong' of the shooter is virtually in the center of the picture when it is lining up, so we know exactly where to shoot it. We are working on getting our cycle time down, as sometimes it takes 20 seconds to line up, which has a lot of room for improvement.
For what we were working on during competition to get it 'tuned in', it basically required fixing the structure of the shooter. The bottom 'prong' that basically points to the true location of where the ball should go (the top prong is just for aesthetics) got bent slightly down in one of our early qualification matches. This was because we hadn't tuned in the flow control fittings correctly on our shooter lift piston (we have a two position shooter, one up position for shooting and one down position for intaking), which meant that the shaft collar that stopped the shooter from going down too far was getting pushed further down until the shooter was scraping on the ground. We didn't have a long enough of a break to fix the problem during quals on Friday, so after the last match, we worked to get it back into place and added a stronger corner bracket to make sure it wouldn't happen again. Once that was fixed, on Saturday, we actually were 100% at getting the ball to go into the goal. It did, however, come out of the goal twice during the first quarterfinal match.
I would also like to add my own contribution to the thread. There are two matches that stand out to me as being very exciting matches, even though one of them shows a little bias from me.
First, I would like to nominate SF 2-1. There was a dual breach, dual capture, which was the only time this happened during Southfield.
Second, partially due to personal bias, partially because its an exciting match to watch,
I would like to nominate QF 1-2. This match came down to one boulder, even though the score may not show it. The 8 alliance needed one more boulder to capture, and when the match ended, behind the glass, I thought we had won the match. However, when the score came up, we found out that the 1 alliance had captured, which meant that we had lost. We had alumni who had been watching the webcast calling us because they thought we had pulled an upset. If you look at Dan Ernst's photos from the event, you can see our exact reaction when the score came up
