Ramp to Ringer Ratio

[Michael Corsetto]

After the first week of regionals, what have the ratio of rack scorers to ramp bots been at the various regionals?

After looking through the 54 bots at PNW, I was slightly shocked at how few 2x 12" ramp bots there were. By my count there were about 10 of them, which suprised me a bit because I was expecting 1/3 - 1/2 of them to be ramps. I know there were others that had maybe a 1 bot ramp and an arm, but in general those teams suffered by spreading there abilities thin and ended up not being too useful in the elimination rounds. I was actually a little worried that we would get a good ramp bot for elination matches, but luckily we were with 1280, who had an awesome winch/4 bar ramp system that worked great with us. Sadly we fried our robot controller in the third match of the Quarter Finals so we didn't advance , but it worked well when we were functional.

So what was the ratio like at the other regionals? Did PNW just happen to have a below average number of ramp bots? It seems to me that this ratio is going to vary a lot from regional to regional.

[Richard McClellan]

How did you fry the robot controller? That's unfortunate to see a good robot fail due to something like that.