With the livestream not archived - does anyone know of anyone with the match videos from their own or team recordings? We'd be happy to help copy, upload to youtube, and document match numbers / team numbers / etc.
Congratulations to 1156 - Under Control for the win with 287 and 263! We played with them in Virginia last year and were happy to see them win this year. They have a great drive team and are great to work with.
Our (my) personal favorite match (maybe ever as coach the last few years) was against 1156 in this regional. We knew it would be tough, we weren't predicted to win - and one of our alliance robots only had one drive motor working on one side of their tank. We re-strategized our approach in a scramble before the match and in the final 30 seconds realized we were only behind by 7 points. We had rebuilt our climber between matches to go higher (LI said it wasn't high enough to count, at Pitt we had ~10 successful awarded climbs), and knew a 15 point climb would win the match by 7. So we abandoned our last shot and started our climb. We usually tune out cheers from the crowd, but we heard the "climb climb climb" chant. We latched at the top and the drivers put down the controllers.
And then the hollow thud as the robot fell and crashed into the batter; followed by the loudest "ooooo" from the crowd I had ever heard.
We had bent our hooks at a new angle to accommodate the higher lift, and the un-bent when hanging. The robot was fine though
We have robot gopro video and you can see the drive team's reactions across the field through the glass at the climb and then the fall. We had a disappointing end to the regional with our laptop completely locking up during our second to last match, and another robot breaching our frame perimeter with a hard hit, tangling us, and ultimately hitting our power switch, disabling us from our last match.