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Originally Posted by team66t-money
well congrats to those who have capped in auto with the camera and not doing dead reck.. it is extremely hard to understand and takes patients. continue on posting i lovee to read about other teams success. once again make sure that you are only reporting goals capped with the camera
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As a field volunteer I can honestly say that the FIRST calibration is not very good. Due to changing field conditions, and a general indifference by the field staff (after all how many teams use the vision tetras?) create virtually unusable calibration. For instance, at SVR, we got a calibration of 97 for green. We then re-did the calibration with the vision tetra rotated ~5 deg and got 32. We posted "97/32" in the pit; really useful for teams.
From a strategy standpoint, I think that it may be almost as useful to knock down the corner tetra and cap the center, giving the alliance 15 points in autonomous. One act which seems very hard is to cap the center home tetra starting from the center (forward position) with the starting tetra. We seemed to be the only team at SVR which could do so. Also, I think that it is surprising that in many ways, the real "autonomous challenge" has not been the vision tetras, but the starting tetra and hanging tetras.
On the topic of mythical FIRST things, has any regional other than SVR had real time scoring working consistantly?
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2003 Sacramento Rookie All Star
2003 Silicon Valley Rookie All Star
2004 Sacramento Engineering Inspiration Award
2004 Sacramento Visualization Award
2004 Outstanding Volunteer Award (G. Glasser)
2004 Silicon Valley Sportsmanship Award
2004 National Visualization Runner Up
2004 Cal Games Finalist
2005 Sacramento Sportsmanship Award
2005 Sacramento #1 seed
2005 Sacramento Finalist
2005 Silicon Valley Sportsmanship Award
2005 Silicon Valley #1 Seed
2005 Silicon Valley Finalist