Did anyone share Minibots?

[Thad House]

We also deployed their minibot twice during the qualifications, so they had a total of 4 minibots sent up by other teams.

[LightWaves1636]

FRC 3320 borrowed 118's minibot at Lone Star, we used it successfully in our last qualification match and helped them win the Co-opertition award. They even let us keep it after Lone Star was over as a thank you for be part of the two awards they won.

[Andy Brockway]

Originally Posted by 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.

Not only did 217 lend us a mini-bot for GLR, they gave us pieces to build an identical mini-bot for us to use in Hartford. Unfortunately 217 is not registered for Hartford as otherwise we would certainly have put them in the running for the Coopertition Award.

[legogeek24]

Haywire 1569 and LiveWire 3456 both shared minibots at the Sacramento Regional. Haywire ended up winning the Coopertition award!

[BX MARK]

Team 1023 gave team 815 their minibot to use in their last qualification match and eliminations. It worked!

[ronmarkum]

Team 1750 loaned one of their three minibots to 3507 which got it up the pole at least twice earning 1750 the Cooperatition Award at the Oklahoma City regional.

[princessnatalie]

Originally Posted by Mr V

I take it you and the teams you lent your minibot to were on cascade as I don't see any of those team numbers on my olympic list. If you can confirm if one of those did successfully score in qualification matches and the aprox time I'll research it further and see if we can get your team the cascade coopertition award which was not given out at Cascade as verified by official FIRST results, WA and national FIRST officials, and the field announcer.

Dont get me wrong, I am not complaining. 3221 was an amazing team and I am glad they were able to use our minibot. I just found it odd to see (or not see I guess) how the coopertition points effected our score and outcome.

We will see what happens in Portland this week as well.

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by princessnatalie

Dont get me wrong, I am not complaining. 3221 was an amazing team and I am glad they were able to use our minibot. I just found it odd to see (or not see I guess) how the coopertition points effected our score and outcome.

We will see what happens in Portland this week as well.

As I implied in earlier posts I'm on top of the situation and there are people high in the FIRST organization looking into the issue with the both Seattle regionals. It is highly likely that at Portland and the rest of the remaining regionals the proper recording and accounting of Coopertition points will be watched much more carefully. Which is a good thing because Bear Metal has every intention of giving Team Mean Machine (and any other team) formidable competition for the Coopertition award at Portland.



Good luck and we look forward to seeing you Thur morn.

[Travis Hoffman]

In Pittsburgh, Team 1507 loaned us their backup to their extremely quick minibot design. After fabricating an adapter for our deployment, we successfully deployed their minibot in our final qualifying match, earning 1507 the Coopertition Award.

Even though 1507 chose us for the elims, inconsistency in using our swing arm deployment with their smaller minibot led us to return to using our larger, slower, yet far more reliably-deployed minibot design in the elims. This reliability came in handy in more than one match and helped the alliance make it to the finals. We are now working to improve our swing arm to work with minibots such as this.

By the way...Smoky Mountain Regional teams...two 1/2" diameter vertical aluminum pegs with a 4" center to center spacing...just sayin....

Fun fact - 1503 *almost* won the Pittsburgh Coopertition Award, because the volunteer mistakenly wrote their number down when our drive team checked in - another volunteer saw this and caught it in time! I'm sure that would have been quite an amusing sequence of events during the awards ceremony...*imagines "Yakety Sax" playing*.

[jwfoss]

At WPI we (FRC 2168) had some major problems with our deployment device through qualifications rounds, despite having a fast minibot.

We were selected into an alliance and shared our minibot with our alliance partners, 236 Techno Ticks, who took ours and deployed it in our first elimination match, resulting in not only the first succesful field test of our minibot but also securing us the match win.

We ended up recieving the Coopertition (TM) award because of this. Thanks 236!

[Nick Lawrence]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Fun fact - 1503 *almost* won the Pittsburgh Coopertition Award, because the volunteer mistakenly wrote their number down when our drive team checked in - another volunteer saw this and caught it in time! I'm sure that would have been quite an amusing sequence of events during the awards ceremony...*imagines "Yakety Sax" playing*.

That would have been hilarious. We would have been just as confused as everyone else.

-Nick

[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."