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Originally Posted by jamie_1930
I saw this and was extremely pleased to see someone hanging out there, but the problem I, and 378, noticed was their arm to elevate themselves was hanging below the plane of the platform when they were finished. In accordance with the FIRST definition of elevated
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It was not counted by our Ref that time, but they did do it again in another match and their arm did not drop plus they lifted themselves higher. 378 has a very simple & elegant system and I LOVED it
What I Learned:
- MANY robots got stuck driving up on balls, lots of penalties there
- Ball Control will be very clutch, robots that are good at it wont spend time chasing balls
- A LOT of kickers broke today, a lot of cool solutions, but a lot of them broke, reliability may be tougher than we thought
- We didnt get a chance to see it done, but 1551 had an AWESOME solution for suspending a second robot (I would encourage anyone who saw it to let them keep their secret until week 1) I now think there may be more suspensions before Atlanta
- Human players were doing ok, it wasnt too difficult to return balls without fumbles
- It is possible to "do it all" - 378 could go over the bump, under the tunnel, kick & hang!! WOW
- Saw a lot of mecanum drives done reasonably well, and they were able to climb the bump
- Even really low robots can flip over going over the bump!! We saw two 16" tall robots flip over and turtle(on their backs)!!
- Kicking balls 2 zones wont be as frequent as we thought, only time we saw it done it bounced off the back wall out of the field
- FEED YOUR WATCHDOG!! (how annoying to get halfway through a match and get unfed watchdog errors)
- FULLY Charged Batteries work best if you expect to make it over the bump!!!
- Saw several matches with more penalties than scores, and while I would normally say this would "clean up" after early regionals, I think a lot of it is due to ball incursion & kicker feet getting stuck out, which may not be as easy to fix
Well a HUGE thank you to all of the teams that came out to Rally, we hope you learned as much as we did, and it was GREAT to see everyone!! We love the Rochester teams
See you all at FLR in a week & a half!!!!!!