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Originally Posted by BradMello
It was unbelievable that we moved up to 2nd seed from 15th with the seeding points from our last two matches...the 21-7 and 12-11 games in a row were perfect.
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That 21-7 match helped us out a lot as well. Our losses on Thursday and Friday put us down in the forties and fifties for seeding, but it really was that match that sealed us in the top 30.
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Originally Posted by Mr MOE
Vance.
MOE agrees with you about replay of match 72. Obviously, given our strategy for that match, which included a "score for the opposing alliance: autonomous which worked great, we were counting on all your bots functioning normally. We also agree that the match could have been a very high scoring one. 
Does anyone know if a replay was even considered and, if not, why not? |
Honestly, for me at least, it was the only match I was worrying about losing during qualifications. I wasn't sure if we'd mesh well with Thunderchickens, and we already knew you were a very strong robot (we didn't pick you in Baltimore for nothing).
The reason 72 wasn't a replay was the refs didn't deem it a field error, even though it clearly was. The communication error was solved by our programmer; basically the wireless system is connected from driver station to field to robot. The refs only saw that communication was coming in and out of the field - they never verified whether the robot was receiving anything. If you looked at the field, you saw a green light/no blinking light at the plexi, but if you saw the robot it had the quick blinking light. The robot could only do things that were coded into the bot itself, so that's why autonomous worked, and if you were able to see it, our auto-correction actually pushed a robot away on the field.
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Originally Posted by The Cyborg
I really loved 78's hanging mechanism to the point where I went down to their pit just to take a picture of it |
That lifter was our comeuppance in two of our final matches against them at BAE Granite State. And of course it was their extreme versatility with it that allowed us to get the max out of our 21-7 match with them.