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Observations of KSC

Posted by Alan Federman at 03/04/2001 10:41 AM EST


Engineer on team #255, Odyssey, from Foothill HS, San Jose and NASA.


In Reply to: Bottom line analysis from KSC
Posted by Mike Sklar on 03/03/2001 11:37 PM EST:



I saw about 20-30 matches of the KSC regional, including a couple of semi-final elimination matches.

General - most machines were under-powered and had extreme difficulty maintaining position on the bridge when it was at an angle. Teams would send 2 robots at a time over the bridge and it was a struggle to get them both over without one getting tangled up or falling over. The bridge was often blocked by a robot falling over on or near the bridge and blocking it.

I saw the bridge getting blocked by balls a couple of times, but only once, was a team able to clear a ball from under the bridge - this too so long however, that there was no time to balance the bridge or
even for the ball clearing robot to cross the field into scoring position.

Several teams could score the big ball - but usually this took so long they lost the bridge or time multipliers.

I heard or saw of 3 300 point plus games. In general these were two goals balanced in a short amount of time and no big balls - but ther may have been one two goals 2 big ball game.

Teams had trouble balancing even one goal by a single robot. If one robot helped stabilize the bridge,
it was a lot easier and FASTER to balance the goal - It often was better to have two robots out of scoring position and 1 or two goals balanced then trying to balance until the time ran out and losing all
the multipliers.

I saw one attempt to use the stretcher which was unsuccessful.

Several robots were designed to be bridge tenders but most were not able to flip the bridge. One's that worked drove under the level or up bridge and held up or level while balancing or helping another team to balance. Almost all the teams I saw went over the bridge. In the 20 or 30 some matches I saw - only one team, 538, went through the barrier and then scored a big ball(I think).

Most alliances managed time poorly, stopping at
59, 29, and 14 and losing time multipliers.

So the key to success is to know your capabilities and help each other!

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