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Re: Interesting observations at UTC
Posted by James Keohane.
Student on team #69, HYPER (Helping Youth to Pursue Engineering and Robotics), from Quincy Public Schools and The Gillette Company. Posted on 4/2/2000 12:49 PM MST In Reply to: Interesting observations at UTC posted by Fran on 4/2/2000 9:55 AM MST: Yep, the regionals were a blast. Team 69 wants to thank Team 58 for picking us in their alliance, and everyone had a blast. See everyone in Florida!!! : I too was anxiosly awaiting the Gillette Team 69 and it was so impressive on getting on the bar immediately and sliding : sideways and transfering balls from 1 side to the other BUT after about 3 rounds someone figured out that : you just had to keep them from reach ing the bar first and that severely reduced their effectiveness. Though that long arm : could still reach and remove balls from the floor it was a slower process. They were knocked over several times and righted themselves. : Team 131 CHAOS was even more impressive, they are very fast to pick the balls out of the goals but are extremely fast to move : around, the only real defense against them is to block them from reaching the goals but they are are so fast to backup and move : away that any robot trying this better be fast to switch directions. Our alliance was successful at doing this in 1 round of the the : quarter finals (where we had the 2 lightest robots around...92 lbs and 87lbs). One other note, in 1 semifinal round chaos and its alliance both were knocked over sideways and could not right themselves. I expect to see them up near thetop at nationals. : It was a great feeling for our team to be picked for an alliance...we were all over from 1/2 early to finishing 25 but due to a variety of technical : problems that got worked out along the way. We even sent our base without lift out at one time and still managed to block and knock robots, : we also had lots of speed to get to the other side. We had another round where we successfully kept robots off the ramp. : Well Florida should be even more exciting. : Fran : Techno Insanity #166 |
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