2003 Long Island Regionals

[Cobra]

Whats up everyone, its been fun.. Started a thread on this years LI regionals for all who wanna share. Team #1203 pandemonium here and our robot MOVES!!!

[EIROBOTICS86]

so does ours when the wheels aren't broken

[Rob Colatutto]

we do some of that 'moving' too, except when our auto code goes the wrong way... or actually works and speeds over the ramp smashing into our wall knocking the oi on the floor with 3 seconds of auto mode to get it back up

[Adam Y.]

we do some of that 'moving' too, except when our auto code goes the wrong way... or actually works and speeds over the ramp smashing into our wall knocking the oi on the floor with 3 seconds of auto mode to get it back up

Meh its the luck of the draw. Our robot moves very well and actually works very well. Unfournatly we are not doing very well. My teamates also have a tendancy to scare the hell out of me. Teamate walks up to me:
We broke a gear.
Me:Huh??? How the hell did we do that??
I walk up to the gearbox and realize that the gear did not break but the spacer on it needed to be fixed which is an easier(yet pain in the $@#$@#$@# considering how we built the thing) fix. They were doing that all day to me.
I am a littled annoyed that the team that won the spirit award was actually breaking the rules on noise makers. At least it was not as bad as what happened last year. We had floyd on one side with the same wooden blocks and part of the marching band on the other.

[goldalex]

we do a pretty good job as long as our auto mode works but its been a little sketchy. We are currently in 4th so we arent doing that bad, but of course we can always do better...can we maybe top our 233 qp???

[ghropi287]

Originally posted by wysiswyg
I am a littled annoyed that the team that won the spirit award was actually breaking the rules on noise makers. At least it was not as bad as what happened last year. We had floyd on one side with the same wooden blocks and part of the marching band on the other.

Hey guys, great job today. This competition is awesome! Just curious, which rule on noise makers are you refering to? I'm trying to convince people to give up the wooden blocks if that's what you mean, I know they're really annoying. heh. GOOD LUCK TOMORROW!! : )

Btw.. I'm the LI rep. for RCU (Robot Chicks Union) so if anyone is interesting in learning about it, supporting it, or joining stop by 287's pit station or ask anyone on the team where you can find Kelly.

[Rob Colatutto]

i was thinking....and one thing that we do not have, is any bridge blockers at this regional. we have no huge robots like 229 or 68 that can block the entire bridge. i dunno if anyone else used thier stacker besides us, i haven't been able to watch a lot of matches because i've been working on things and making sure the autocode works

[goldalex]

I havent seen much stacking either...one round our partner was port jeff and we made a stack during human mode and then they came over and grabbed the stack and sat int eh corner, protecting the stack and brought it out at the end. But we have not used our arms at all to do stacking. Our arms have come in handy for knocking down boxes and sweeping them.

[fast frank]

we weren't able to stack at all because our arms exploded in our first qualification match. anyone see it? we took them off, and seem to be doing better without them.

i really enjoyed our match with 353, the Pobots. i liked it so much i even did donuts on top of the ramp!!! anyone see that? we have another match together tomorrow and i believe we can beat our previous score of 233.

can't wait for tomorrow. good luck!!!

[Matt Krass]

Originally posted by Nataku
we do some of that 'moving' too, except when our auto code goes the wrong way... or actually works and speeds over the ramp smashing into our wall knocking the oi on the floor with 3 seconds of auto mode to get it back up

Hehe, I think we should've gotten the jduges award for our auto mode, it was very creative, it found a new way to fail every time :-). Well me and my co-programmer dan are doing pretty well, we got all the major bugs out (such as bad labeling making a right turn instead a left...oops). I think the coolest failure was when our automode had too loose a turn, missed the ramp completely but managed to knock down the other alliance's HP stack. ;-) If anyone asks, it was supposed to do that. Well see ya later all.

[Cobra]

Mannnnnnn I am so depressed, we ranked 14 out of 32 in the regional, were a rookie team that never broke down once, and made it to the top of the ramp 10 out of 11 matches.... We had an autonomous mode that was very reliable in getting up on the ramp to get to push the boxes, we were powerful too, the only robot there that overpowered us was from team #42, everyone else tried but we overcame them, our only weakness was that we were slow, i guess thats why we didnt get picked for the playoffs. Well we thought we deserved it but oh well. At least we got a rookie allstar award which didnt mean much, i dont get how 2 of out of 3 rookie teams get an all star award. It was fun though, so if u have any replies just hit em up.

[Cory]

Who won anyways? Who won awards?

Cory

[EIROBOTICS86]

we did

[Rob Colatutto]

263 won the motorola quality design award for our skids and huge wheels, and 271 won the gm industrial design for thier 4 wheel drive and 'twistable' robot chassis

[Willum]

871 took home part of the regional finalist award with 566 and alliance captain 545. ... i can still feel that adrenaline flowing.