Did anyone share Minibots?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

Can you win the coopertition award if you aren't at the regional as an FRC team? If we bring a minibot to another regional can we win the award?

I am fairly certain I saw an official source (probably Q&A) say that you had to be registered for the event, but I can't seem to find it right now.

I'm sure the beneficiaries of your generosity at the event would be more than happy to make an award for you.

[maltz1881]

We mentored 2 rookie teams this year and never even thought about building ourmini's together...duh!!! Well that is changing tonight! I have a love/hate relationship with those darn things! Hate how the motors burn up if you even look at it the wrong way and love it when they climb that pole!

[Brandon_L]

We had ours on our own robot, 2458, and 2191's bot

it was pretty cool to see it on other robots

[icetee]

does your shared minibot have to score to win co-op award?

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by icetee

does your shared minibot have to score to win co-op award?

Yes and in qualifications, not in eliminations.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Mr V

Yes and in qualifications, not in eliminations.

Minibots that score in the elims can win the award.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Minibots that score in the elims can win the award.

I got called on that earlier. They have to score in quals.

"The total number of Coopertition points earned by a TEAM throughout the qualification matches will be their Coopertition score."

[rsisk]

Here is the list of Coopertition awards I have compiled so far based on the Awards pages on FIRST's web site....


COOPERTITION AWARDS AFTER WEEK 3
15 YES
12 NO

Coopertition Awards
WEEK1
Alamo - NO
NJ - YES
BAE - YES
FINGER LAKES - YES
Kettering District - ??
Traverse District - YES

WEEK2
SDC - NO
FL - NO
WPI - NO
LAKE SUPERIOR - YES
KC - NO
PITTSBURGH - YES
Wisconsin - NO
New York - NO
Waterford District - NO

WEEK3
NO Arizona Regional
YES Sacramento Regional
NO Peachtree Regional
YES Boilermaker Regional
YES Oklahoma Regional
YES Lone Star Regional
NO Seattle Olympic Regional
YES Seattle Cascase Regional
YES West Michigan District
YES Detroit District
NO Bayou Regional
YES St. Louis Regional
YES Chesapeake Regional

[tyronott]

Team 1918 "the NC Gears" shared a design with many teams including ours (Team 74 C.H.A.O.S.). Our team was very grateful for that!

[flippy147852]

Originally Posted by tyronott

Team 1918 "the NC Gears" shared a design with many teams including ours (Team 74 C.H.A.O.S.). Our team was very grateful for that!

We were happy to pass the design along to your team, among others. It was cool to walk around the pits and see our minibot design in at least 7 different pits. 141 even made it lighter and flashier!

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by rsisk

NO Peachtree Regional

FIRST has updated their Awards page for Peachtree and put a trophy in the mail to Team 122.

Originally Posted by MsMonicaB

At the Peachtree Regional team 122 tried to share one of their 2 extra minibots with us but we did not have a deployment platform to work with it. They ended up sharing it with another team that made it to the finals though. So yes...

Also, we only made semifinals and never actually deployed the minibot in elims. We only got it up once, in our second to last qual match.

[2471ANNA]

Our team (Team Mean Machine 2471) shared minibots at the Seattle:Cascade regional with 2 other teams that proved extrememly successful. Our alliance parter, team 1510 the Wildcats, used one of ours for both the qualification matches and finals. In building our minibot(s) we kept the design very generic so each of the 4 bots can be deployed numerous ways. Since we brought several loaner minibots it was easy to loan them out. Team 1510 ended up taking a minibot home to work with and will be bringing it back to the Portland, OR regional this next weekend (: We all look forward to seeing how other teams approach the minibot aspect of competition!

[meakerb]

We have been in contact with Kevin, the FIRSTWA chairman, to hopefully correct any mistake in awarding team 3221 the cooperatition award, when it really should have been awarded to team 2471.

We were honored to be able to utilize the elegant and simple minibot design of team 2471, and were thrilled that they prevailed thoughout the eliminations to win the Seattle Cascade regional. Great job.

Mentor, team 3221

[Mr V]

Thanks for helping to see that 2471 will get the coopertition award the earned and deserved!

Kevin has it under control and has informed 2471 of the fact that once all the paper work has been done it runs up the national chain of command and back down they will be receiving the coopertition award for Cascade.

Currently at the Oregon regional 5 of the top 10 teams are carrying either a 2471 or 2046 minibot.

[sanddrag]

At Long Beach, 696 has had 3 team members dedicated to installing a minibot on alliance partners' robots if they don't have a working one.

2339 has successfully deployed it on numerous occasions. 2576 attempted in two matches, but was not successful. 2272 had it all ready to go and tested working, but had a control system issue which left them motionless on the field.

It was a really great experience to work with team 2576 from Chile. Even though they didn't speak perfect English, and we didn't speak much Spanish, we really worked together well to try to get it installed and working. They gave it a great effort. I really like the sharing and helping aspect of this year's competition.

I believe the 696 minibot has appeared in 9 matches of other teams so far. Anyone else sharing at Long Beach?

Chances are it'll appear in at least one more tomorrow.