Predictions Championship 2012: Newton

[SamMullen]

Originally Posted by Looking Forward

SLEEPER:
While fire rate might not be a huge concern for accurate key scorers, it definitely is for teams that prefer the fender. 488's slow rate of fire exposes them to fender defense, but they've claimed to have decreased their cycle time. X-bot was the #1 seed at both of their events, so it's obvious they can play smart and win matches, but the stakes are much higher now. If they do increase their firing rate, they could be dangerous.

If I remember correctly, although they were neck and neck for most of the regional, 1983 was the number one seed on the Cascade field.

[Thad House]

And also 1983 was not the #1 seed or picked by the #1 seed in Portland.

[dictionaria13]

Yes, Skunkworks was the #1 seed on their field in Seattle, but it was Olympic, not Cascade.

[Bjenks548]

Nice to get a mention from "Looking Forward". I'm very excited to play with 330 at some point, seeing their robot online showed me our design wasn't insane! Whoever manages to maneuver their way through this division and onto Eisenstein defiantly has a great chance at world champions! See everyone tomorrow at load in!

[Madison]

Originally Posted by SamMullen

If I remember correctly, although they were neck and neck for most of the regional, 1983 was the number one seed on the Cascade field.

Yep -- we had some trouble making coop balances happen on Saturday morning and they didn't, so they jumped in front of us.

In addition to the changes we made to reduce reload time, we've ditched our camera-based ranging and have dialed in preset key shots and given our driver a camera-based aiming reticle. He's had good success in practice; hopefully that will give us a bit more versatility and flexibility on the field, though I'd like to note that, even at the fender, we're really hard to move.

[Thad House]

Originally Posted by Madison

Yep -- we had some trouble making coop balances happen on Saturday morning and they didn't, so they jumped in front of us.

In addition to the changes we made to reduce reload time, we've ditched our camera-based ranging and have dialed in preset key shots and given our driver a camera-based aiming reticle. He's had good success in practice; hopefully that will give us a bit more versatility and flexibility on the field, though I'd like to note that, even at the fender, we're really hard to move.

We did the exact same thing with our camera between portland and seattle. Every shot we made in seattle was manually aligned and used preset distances. This worked out VERY well for us, and we made improvements for worlds to make it even more accurate and useful.