2011 FLR Robots

[pfreivald]

Just about everyone at the rally could pick up from the floor...

[Alex Cormier]

I think it will be highly competitive.

Lots of tubes on the ground, robots that can't pick form the floor will have issues staying on top of the ranking.

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

Just about everyone at the rally could pick up from the floor...

and 174 can too.

Teams at FLR are known to at times have unique answers in playing the game, so I wouldn't be surprised if 1/3rd of the robots won't pick up from the floor...however I still highly doubt it.

What I am interested in is FLR human players. In Lunacy, seeing human players was part of the fun. It makes me think that one team might pick a team just because their human player can throw the entire length of the field.

[DarkFlame145]

FLR is a fantastic regional, very competitive and you dont see the same teams win year in and year out. Also, win or lose you know you will always have a great time.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by DarkFlame145

FLR is a fantastic regional, very competitive and you dont see the same teams win year in and year out. Also, win or lose you know you will always have a great time.

To add to that, you don't even know who will do well each year; you might be a finalist one year, and the next not even reach elims. Or vise versa!

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

To add to that, you don't even know who will do well each year; you might be a finalist one year, and the next not even reach elims. Or vise versa!

*ahem*

Champions last year at top seed, and the year before nothing to write home about. The year before that, second place, and the year before that didn't even make the tournament.

...we hope to break the up-down cycle and keep the NY/BR cup for a second year!

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

*ahem*

Champions last year at top seed, and the year before nothing to write home about. The year before that, second place, and the year before that didn't even make the tournament.

...we hope to break the up-down cycle and keep the NY/BR cup for a second year!

Looking at the videos of your bot, you'll have a good year. I'd love to see another 1551/217/174 hookup in the finals haha.


Also here is a lame video with 174 stuff in it. Don't look too hard for robot stuff because this was made before we put the whole thing together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YhwIN0RwjI

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

I'd love to see another 1551/217/174 hookup in the finals haha.

Or more precisely, I wouldn't!

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Or more precisely, I wouldn't!

heehee. Well, I've got to start showing less favoritism now since I'm volunteering. *gets serious*

Whatever happens this year, it will sure be great. 2007, the other tube year, was a very good year for FLR, and a difficult one in the elimination matches. that year 5 rubber matches were played in elims, one of them in the finals. that was the year that gave 1450 and 250 their share of the FLR banners.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Tetraman

Looking at the videos of your bot, you'll have a good year.

The very, very interesting thing about this game is that it isn't hard to build a robot to do all the things required of it this year. The hard part is building a robot that does all of those things better than everyone else's robots.

We can floor load. We can feeder-load. We can score on all pegs. We score on the top peg in autonomous (from the straight or the Y). We've got a consistent minibot of at least reasonable speed (though not as fast as we'd like -- and we're working on that!) We're pretty fast, and our driver is absolute nails...

...but we're 9:1 on 6" mecanum, so we can't push (except against all you other mecanum/omni bots out there), and I think we might have drastically underestimated the strength of throwing tubes into your own scoring zone, and thus didn't gear for quite that speed on our manipulator.

1551 aspires to get better every year. We have an almost completely new team this year, what with most of our team graduating last year and being replaced by a greater number of 'rookie' members (of whom I am incredibly proud)...

We'd love to be in the position to be choosing our alliance again this year. But as with all things: we shall see.

[Ryan_Davis]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

The very, very interesting thing about this game is that it isn't hard to build a robot to do all the things required of it this year. The hard part is building a robot that does all of those things better than everyone else's robots.

We can floor load. We can feeder-load. We can score on all pegs. We score on the top peg in autonomous (from the straight or the Y). We've got a consistent minibot of at least reasonable speed (though not as fast as we'd like -- and we're working on that!) We're pretty fast, and our driver is absolute nails...

...but we're 9:1 on 6" mecanum, so we can't push (except against all you other mecanum/omni bots out there), and I think we might have drastically underestimated the strength of throwing tubes into your own scoring zone, and thus didn't gear for quite that speed on our manipulator.

1551 aspires to get better every year. We have an almost completely new team this year, what with most of our team graduating last year and being replaced by a greater number of 'rookie' members (of whom I am incredibly proud)...

We'd love to be in the position to be choosing our alliance again this year. But as with all things: we shall see.

Can't wait to compete Mr. Freivald. Last year was a total blast in Atlanta . Hopefully we can do well again this year in conjunction with our brethren at 340.