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Originally Posted by jblay
Although I agree that 2041 played superb defense and them riding up on 254 basically stopped any kind of maneuver 254 could make, 254 still effectively limited 469's cycle. In the first match of the semis, the match was within 2 but 469 was let loose when 254 went over the bump to try and hang and that is where that match was lost in my opinion. If 3357 could hang, that match would have been very close and Archimedes could have taken it. I'm not saying 3357 wasn't awesome, and I'm not saying you guys would have topped Curie with another team, all I'm saying is that 3357 may not have been the perfect fit for the strategy you guys ran, because you essentially left the opposing scoring zone open during the finale.
As a side note I was wondering about something that happened in the first match of the semis. 254 entered the opposing tunnel at the end of the autonomous period to try and prevent 469 from setting up, 469 pushed them out of the tunnel at either the end of autonomous or at the start of teleop. When I was checking out 254's pit I noticed that they have a ratcheting system on their gearboxes to prevent people from pushing them. This ratcheting system looked like it also disengaged to allow 254 to back up. Was the gearbox I saw not from their drive train or did something else happen during that match?
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That was the drive gearbox, but the ratchet was used to prevent back drive on the arm. Bad things would happen if you engaged that and drove at the same time. Just ask some of the other 254 members what the early software tests for the arm did to the robot ;-)
We planned for the robot to exit the other side of the tunnel in auto, but 469 beat us there. All and all that particular auto mode (kick 3, block tunnel from far zone) was about 90% done. We never quite finished the part that made the robot hold it's ground. Whoops.