Alamo 2012

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Justin Ridley

The Robonauts were informed this morning our mechanism would be penalized if used. We did not attempt to hang in our first match, nor will we for the remainder of this tournament. 2936 balanced the bridge for 10 pts. The head ref announced the ruling to the regional during a break after match 4. I will post more details on this at a later time.

Thanks for the update, Justin. Congrats to your team for going out on a limb and designing a mechanism that was risky, but inspirational at the same time. You guys created this most likely for the sake of seeing if it could be done, and to push the envelope.

I believe that you guys did this in a very appropriately timed fashion, publishing a video around the time of kickoff and also demonstrating this during practice day at a week 1 regional.

As usual, 118 is a classy and innovative team.

Sincerely,
Andy Baker

[tim-tim]

118 just flipped and took a hit while trying to balance on the coopertition bridge.

Hope everything is ok

[jblay]

1477's fender shooting is deadly. It will be interesting to see where they go tomorrow. 118 is also fender shooting but to the side with the turret, the two of them would fit well together and would be a deadly combo. It will also be interesting to see what 148 can do when fully operational and how they fit into the equation. I have a strong feeling that 2 of these 3 teams will be in the top alliance.

[Tristan Lall]

So is it just me, or is something screwy about the co-opertition bridge scoring?

In the rankings page, three teams are listed with 2 CP each, and all others have 0 CP each. That's not possible if the Twitter feed is accurate. CPs are scored for both alliances simultaneously, and can't be erased by DQs (although the QPs that ordinarily result would not count).

(Also, the FMS web feed seems to have just gone down, so you may have to wait a while to check this.)

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

In the rankings page, three teams are listed with 2 CP each, and all others have 0 CP each.

And now the standings are back...but with 1 CP each. Still wrong.

[juchong]

That's week 1 for you!

[Tristan Lall]

Match 25: if you can't shoot, for god's sake, go for the bridges! (Especially the middle one.)

[tim-tim]

did anyone else lose audio on the webcast?

[Chris86]

ALL OF THE BRIDGES!!!!!! AHAHHAA best match I've seen yet

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Chris86

ALL OF THE BRIDGES!!!!!! AHAHHAA best match I've seen yet

Oh man. What am I missing by being at work?!

(On break... )

Jane

[Chris86]

231, 118, 3481 on red vs 2583, 3417, and 2789 on blue (one of the three was missing, I didn't see which)

Red balanced their bridge with 2. Coopertition was balanced with 2. Blue alliance bridge was balanced with the last robot. All robots on the field were balanced, too cool.

(Red put 4 balls in autonomous too, also impressive)

[JaneYoung]

Thanks, Chris. I bet the fans in the stands went nuts.

Wow.

Jane

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by Chris86

231, 118, 3481 on red vs 2583, 3417, and 2789 on blue (one of the three was missing, I didn't see which)

Red balanced their bridge with 2. Coopertition was balanced with 2. Blue alliance bridge was balanced with the last robot. All robots on the field were balanced, too cool.

In this case, it looks like the Twitter feed has got it right (2 CP); the FMS feed still doesn't (blue didn't get any CP/red got 2 each).

[PayneTrain]

Apparently they will let some shoddy bumpers through... at least at Alamo. I wish I didn't have to bring it up, but considering how critical we all have been over each other team's bumpers, it annoys me bumpers that break multiple rules are allowed to compete.

[Scott England]

is the Alamo webcast down for anyone else? Or rather I should ask, does anyone have a working link? I managed to catch the last few but it seems like the feed died around 5:30ish local time with ~10 matches left in the day.