Did anyone share Minibots?

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

I know there were no minibots shared at Alamo

Actually, 118 helped out with 1429's minibot design and the DiscoBots 2587 created a 118 copy halfway into the regional. 118 was very helpful in discussing their design.

When 2587 faced 118 in the quarters, they attempted to use this shared minibot design but it did not climb successfully (76 - 72 match ) .

[lenny8]

if 118 would like to share there minibot design with me the would be nice

[GaryVoshol]

I saw a minibot from Team 51 on another robot once, but it didn't deploy.

[Paul Copioli]

We shared our mini-bot with 716. We also gave them a partial deployment system and they vastly improved it. The mini-bot we gave them was a different design than our mini-bot, but is still sub 2 seconds.

They used it successfully in several matches but 2228's donated mini-bot made it to the top more than our donated mini-bot.

[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

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

I know there were no minibots shared at Alamo (unless you count the time 118 told the queuers they were using ours, as a prank...) and the Coopertition Award was not given out.

2158 was the only team that legitimately shared a minibot (twice) during qualification matches at Alamo, but unfortunately the team they shared the minibot with did not successfully deploy the minibot either match.

-Danny

[Mr V]

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?

We were on the Olympic side of the 100 team Seattle Cascade/Olympic dual regional playing on the Olympic field and we loaned 1 of our minibots to MRT 3216 who successfully deployed it on Cascade at least twice. We specifically sought out a team from Cascade that had a good deployment system that was compatible, just to test this.

It threw the field people a loop since their system wouldn't accept our team number. Which was the reason given why we were not eligible for the coopertition award at Cascade. Though I'm not sure why they couldn't do a write-in tally since there were exactly 0 other shared minibots successfully deployed and there was no coopertition award given at Cascade.

We also loaned a minibot to 2147 on Olympic who successfully deployed it 3 times in qualifing and at least once in eliminations.

[Vikesrock]

At Peachtree 122 shared their minibot with us (3573). We only got it on the pole once due to numerous issues with our deployer (wouldn't have mattered what the mini was like).

Despite our best efforts to inform anyone who would listen that we were using 122's mini before each match, they were not awarded the Coopertition award for the one qual match we did score it

[bduddy]

From what I heard, there were one or two shares at St. Louis, but none were successful and there was no mention of the Coopertition Award.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

At Peachtree 122 shared their minibot with us (3573). We only got it on the pole once due to numerous issues with our deployer (wouldn't have mattered what the mini was like).

Despite our best efforts to inform anyone who would listen that we were using 122's mini before each match, they were not awarded the Coopertition award for the one qual match we did score it

At Seattle Cascade the que'er did specifically ask 3216 if the minibot was theirs or loaned and if loaned the team that provided it, per the queuing form, as reported by the 3216 drive team.

At Seattle Olympic......

[Michael Corsetto]

After selecting 1868 for our alliance, we immediately began working with them on getting their second minibot working with our deployment system. 45 minutes later we had it ready to go for our first quarterfinal match. Every time we attempted to deploy, it went up, I believe 4 out of the 6 elimination matches we played. Awesome minibot, awesome team, things worked out well.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Mr V

At Seattle Cascade the que'er did specifically ask 3216 if the minibot was theirs or loaned and if loaned the team that provided it, per the queuing form, as reported by the 3216 drive team.

At Seattle Olympic......

At Seattle Cascade, you weren't competing. You can only earn Coopertition points if you're registered for an event as an FRC team per <T03>.

Any borrowed MINIBOT which scores points by legally triggering the TARGET during the MATCH receives one (1) Coopertition point for the FRC TEAM registered for the event that is affiliated with the MINIBOT.

For Seattle Olympic, though, I'm not sure what happened there.

It looks like very few Coopertition Awards are being given out; I'm not sure why. Even in cases where somebody's eligible... I wonder if there are a lot of ties for the award, throwing off the count, or if people are just forgetting that it exists.

[RoboMom]

Mini bots were shared at the Chesapeake Regional.

[rzoeller]

The only minibots shared at Duluth that I know of were us installing a deployment mechanism on our alliance partner over lunch. In fact, using our minibot they consistently beat us up the pole by a few tenths, which is leading to a partial redesign of code.