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Unread 19-03-2006, 10:09
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Re: 2006 Chesapeake Regional

I had a good time at the regional, it was a little disappointing for us being a rookie team, but I think we did a great job overall. We had our drive chain come off 3 of our first 4 matches, and then in the other match, we had another teammate's autonomous drive the wrong way, straight into us, and pushed us onto our ramp and tipped us over before the end of the autonomous period. By the fifth match we were really getting it together, we made about 2 shots into the main goal and got up the ramp at the end, and in the 6th match our autonomous started to accomplish something. However by these matches, at least one of the opposing teams had a very well done autonomous round and we were consistently in a 30 point hole going into the final 3 rounds. By the end of the regional, we had our autonomous nearly 80% completed and our mechanical difficulties had subsided almost entirely, so in that sense we were pretty happy with our accomplishments despite our pretty bad record.

Also, a tale of serendipity. In our fourth match, we played vs a team with the infamous Team Spike (imo best robot there). One of our drive chains came off in the middle of the match, so we were floundering around the middle of the field trying to spin on one wheel to get our shots off before the game ended. Spike came over and pushed us toward his ramp, and most of the way on it. However with our one wheel we were able to flounder all over the place, ultimately preventing all 3 of their robots to get on the ramp. Spike did push us completely onto their ramp though, so we thought that they would get the points for us being on it. However, a link of the drive chain that had slipped off was the only thing touching the ground, so they ruled us not on the ramp. We still lost the match miserably, but it was still a great ending for us.

Good luck to all the teams going to Atlanta, and hopefully team 1895 will be back next year.