What
a
day.
3rd day of Zcharia's Angels:
We went back to the qualification matches. We lost in two of the matches, but on the third match, our friends from Ra'anana, Steampunks - 1577, helped us grab another win.
Sadly, it didn't stop us from reaching the last spot in the rankings.
We were totally depressed that we had soo much bad luck with our alliances and that we weren't able to get things right. Most of the times, our alliance team did loads of mistakes and we lost because of it, but we made some mistakes too.
So, it's the alliance choosing time. At the first team selection to join the alliance, we were not asked to be joined, but at the seconed we were asked by the very kind and very strategicly ready alliance captain team, team 1947 - The Black Knights. We were to play with them and 2210 - Druzebot.
We used the hour of lunch to go over our strategy and figured that we, 2230 and 2210, should try to block the opponents chances to score more than 60 points so we may focus on 1947 lifting our robots.
First Elimination round
We come up ready for the match, set our robot and go!
1947 opens their ramps and get ready to go. Our robot heads our to put tubes on the spider that splits the "blue side" and "red side". We put 2 tubes when we're called to go back to get lifted. We start going back, notice that 2210 weren't able to put a tube at all, but yet the worst to come has come -
2210 started rising in smoke. The referee disabled the robot and the match conituned, but 1947 wasn't able to lift us because it can't lift one robot unless there's another wheight on the other side and there wasn't.
We lost the first match and we were all worried about the next match. 2210 rushed to quick-fix the robot and amazingly they did!
We went to the seconed match, we used the same strategy and we were able to bring it out into the game. Both robots came back to 1947 and we were lifted. The opposing alliance attempted to add more points by putting tubes on their sides on the first and seconed row. It wasn't enough for our 66 points.
We were in the sky becuase the lifting has actually worked.
Seconed Elimination match
We went against Steampunks. A very strategicly ready team. We decided on doing the same thing. What happened was by the time we put our tubes, an opposing robot pushed 1947 towards the tubes and when we came back we were not able to position our robot properly but we where on the lifting system in such a way that 2210 could be lifted. It wasn't enough for us because Steampunks kept scoring and scoring more tubes.
Same thing happened in the seconed round and we lost.
But we didn't care.
We were last on the ranking list, we were chosen to join an alliance in the Elimination rounds and we reached the Semi-Finals and finished at
3RD PLACE!!!!! That's enough reason for us to celebrate!
We cheered for Steampunks at the finals, but 1574 - Miscar, where able to win the 2nd and 3rd round of the Finals. I've seen some of the Steampunks team members being extremly frustrated from the match and some even cried and there was a reason for that.
It was the seconed year in a row where ther reached the finals but lost. They missed their chance to reach the finals twice because of Miscar.
All in all, it was a wonderful 3 day competition. I had loads of fun, I made wonderful friends from various teams, made certain communication bounds between a few teams we knew and enjoyed participating with them.
This is our first year, our first competition and we reached higher than we expected. The best part is we actually won an award, and one we think that says something about our team, especally our building team who thought about the robot, and that award is the Xerox Creativity Award!!! GOO JOB TEAM!!!!
I really enjoyed FIRST. I feel I'm part of it. I can't wait for the next challenge to fun. I've learned soo much from FIRST and I feel it took the full potential out of me. I really want to win next year.
THANK YOU FIRST! THANK YOU FIRST ISRAEL!! THANK YOU ALL WHO MADE THIS SUCH A WONDERFUL AND FUN REGIONAL!!!
GOOD JOB ZCHARIA'S ANGELS!!!!
GO TEAM 2230!!!!GO FIRST!!!!