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Originally Posted by sciencenerd
I didn't see many matches (being on the drive team) but these are the ones that left an impression on my mind the few times I was able to play with/against them at PNW:
Scorers:
948
Lifting bots:
997
488
1280
IMHO, 488 had the best lifting mechanism for their platforms (they would continue to lift after the power was cut) but because their platforms were higher off the ground than the other two lifting bots (3.5" as opposed to something around 1.5") there was a longer, if not steeper, climb to get onto it, and what seemed like a shorter (frontwards-backwards wise) platform. The one issue I noticed was the long time it took to reset their ramps between matches (they seemed to take about 5 minutes between rounds to reset, and when one of the ramps accidentally deployed as we were bringing the robots onto the field our alliance had to call our timeout to reset it. In all fairness they only had to use the first couple of minutes to correct the problem).
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Thanks for the compliments
Our lifts can be reset very quickly -- about a minute or so for each -- but we were being very, very cautious about things in Portland. If we've got the time to make sure things are set up correctly, we may as well use it.
I didn't want to use that timeout when the release came undone, but the lifts are strong enough to break themselves off the robot, so we thought it'd be better to take as much as we could to check everything over.
We've got some changes planned for the lifts when we compete this weekend in San Jose. We're going to make the backstop a little larger and further back so that it can react against a team's bumpers or chassis rather than their wheels.