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Originally Posted by KTorak
Yep, I definitely saw scores of 520 during one practice match. The scoring system appears to be working pretty flawlessly. The field in general is pretty nice. Some robots really killed the balls, and others didnt even leave a mark on them. As for the upper goals, we didnt have a problem with them falling out, but they would get jammed and then not go down at all...until someone reached up and banged on it some. I dunno how thats gonna work out tomorrow, but i'm sure its something that will be addressed at the drivers meeting. If not, I intend on bringing that question up.
EDIT: There were also other scoring errors. In one match, only one team dumped balls, but the end of autonmous score was 21 and they only dumped 10....the system counted an extra ball through the corner goal.
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If balls get jammed in the goal, there is supposed to be a field reset/ scorekeeper behind the goal with a PVC "prod" to unwedge the balls so they will fall down the chute.
As long as that one extra ball in autonomous is not enough to decide why wins autonomous, the score is changed at the end of the match.
Also: A problem we found at VCU: If there are a lot of balls in the corral and a robot dumps more balls in, there was a possibility that new balls would bouce off of the original balls and back up onto the light causing them to be scored twice. Our solution for this was to put another plastic bin beside each corral and have someone there to pull balls out of the corral and into that bin. The human players could still pull from that bin, but it kept so many balls from being in the corral.