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Well, apperantly, I was wrong, and there is a live webcast of Israel's regional! Go watch!

So, this is day two of the first time of Team #2230, Zcharia's Angels, with their robot, Geflitebot, in a FIRST Israel Regional Competition.

We started up with a good feeling that this day will be okay. We decided that we would be playing all the qualifications matches, no matter what, so we made sure that all the fixes we would do that day would be in such a way that we could either quickly do the job or leave it and go to the match.
We went to our first match with our heads up and our spirit high. We decided that since our replacment part for our Jacks system wouldn't come till the 2nd match there would be no lifting from our side till the 3rd game atleast. First match went was ok. Our team scored 2 tubes out of 4 of our alliance and we received 16 point like the other alliance.
We thought we might come out with a tie, but we had a little mistake that we forgot that the human player must not touch a tube before the teleoperated time starts. We lost 20 points.
First loss. No big deal, because we knew our robot can do really great with tubes.
I'm not sure about the 2nd and 3rd match, but in one of them, our Gefiltebot scored 4 tubes when our alliance tubes delpeted(were mostly on the ground waiting for the other robots to pick them up). It was ok that the rest of our alliance hasn't scored allot, but we got a row of 6, 64 points, and we made sure that the other aliiance robots will be blocked.
End of the game, we're all joy! First win!
Well, apperantly our fine blockers forgot to leave the opponent's alliance zone after the end game. Both of them. 50 points penalty. You make the math.
So, it went very well, but the penalties were our rival in this day.
in our 4th match we were lucky to block the other alliance and make sure that our robot will score enough tubes on the rack and we won by one tube. Yay for us! First offical win!
By the 5th or 6th match, we had our jacks back up and operating more or less. We tried to quickly raise or alliance robots before the match, but didn't have time. We went to the match and tried to convince the alliance to score at the begining, one to block all the time untill we ask him to come to our home zone and get ready to be lifted. Our Gefiltebot scored 2 tubes and then went straight to the home zone, leaving 60 secondes to get ready to raise the jacks. Our light alliance robot took his time aiming and did it very quickly while the other robot blocked the other alliance. We asked the other robot to come to get deployed quickly, but for some reason they were hissitant. They barley moved their robot, we started yelling......ok, screaming to them, to come on our robot.
Mabye it was from our temper on them, but for some reason they pressed the button to open their ramp. The score before they opened was 16-8 to us.
We tried raising in the last 15 seconds with only one robot on our side. Our jacks didn't lift properlly despite the fact that the jacks system worked with an accelrometer. You understand the final results.
One match we had a pneumatic problem where our pinch didn't turn 90 degrees and we couldn't catch a tube at all and we forgot the alternative strategy which is to defend. Another match something happened to our driving mechanical system. Both were fixed in no time.

So, all in all, we reached the following scoring in the ranking:

Ranking:31 out of 33.
Qualification Score: 2.00
Ranking Score: 9.50
Wins-Loses:1-7

Along the 2 days we recevied multiple comments about how our robot is really great and a lot of people were amazed of our pinch and jacks system which eventaully bought us the Xerox Creativty Award for having a strong gripping system, robot electrical system placment and jacks system!!!

Good job 2230!

Well, that summeriazes day 2. We're ignoring our lifting because it hasn't been quite successful yet. If our alliance would like us to lift them and they are able to get on us, we'll use the jacks and they should work on 2 robots together. If not, we'll be the main scorer and defender and we're hoping that will be the top 8 alliances reason to chose us as their alliance team in the Elimination rounds.

All in all, FIRST is fun! We are having a blast and we don't really want it to end. It's just soo fun watching this display of science and technology. We're hoping we'll be able to do allot this year and even more next year.

But lets not talk about next year yet. Lets try to win this Regional after all!!!
GO WATCH US AND CHEER FOR US! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

GO TEAM 2230!!!!!!