[Idaman323]

Well at the St. Louis Regionals.. I saw a number of nice plays. Once when we were against 1288, Raven Robotics, it was during all play. The last 15 seconds of the game. Our right side was not riding. We were trying to get up the ramp along with our other two bots. When all of a sudden, 1288 comes driving over with a loaded hopper and scored about 6 shots in a row letting them win the game 48 to 40.

Also, our very first game during the first "real" match day... we had just programmed our autonomous. Since the spot next to the goal (a dumping bot took that), the center spot (a shooting team took that), and we had nothing. So we programmed the bot to just run accross the field and ram the other teams shooting autonomous. It was Team 16, the bomb squad to be exact. Our autonomous went right across, nearly tipped them along with us... and knocked them completly off course. But then... we realized our robot was programmed wrong and our drive in one wheel didn't nuetralize. So we had a spinning robot of doom just randomly moving placs accross the field. Then later that day.. I noticed alot more team using this idea.

Okay last one... We later found out that we could aim our gun at the ground, and roll the balls to the far corner ground goal during autnomous fairly easily. We programmed it... and one team used the ram the other teams robot during autonmous strategy... and stopped directly in front of us. So we were firing 6 balls at a robot point blank range. So we try it again with another match. This time... our chain broke.. and our center teams battery died. So right as it started their robot turned left right infront of ours and we were shooting it point blank. Surprisingly... we still won.. with a dead battery on a robot and a broken chain on ours. SO THEN, we try it one more time we are partnered with the same team... same exact thing happens.. they turned right in front of us. If only we could have had a successful round.. It woulda been a huge advantage over other teams.

It was definatly an interesting regional.. thats all I gotta say.