2013 Hub City Regional

[geomapguy]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Sadly, there is no chance of a webcast. Several teams are attempting to film matches and should have some up on YouTube each night. Hopefully they'll post in this thread when they do.

Overall first impressions:

• The regional is very friendly. Great to see multiple teams collaborating to help others pass inspection.
• About 12 of the 41 robots are still trying to pass inspection.
• 2468 seems like the only legitamate full court shooter based on our conversations. Unfortunatly we have to play against them out of the box in our 1st match. (#5 overall).
• The low pyramid bar seems a little lower than we expected. The top of the bar is about 30 1/16th inches above the carpet. Several teams (including us) are making adjustments to accomidate.
• Inspectors are forcing all high speed shooting wheels to be covered.
• It is a blessing to have several NI/Labview experts here. Our programmers got to spend an hour with Greg McKaskle minimizing the lag in our code and picking up some pointers.
• We are slated for 11 qualification matches, on more than one occasion with only 2 matches in between.
• More successful 10 point climbs than discs being scored.

So the pole is not 30 inches to the middle as the field drawings indicated?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by geomapguy

So the pole is not 30 inches to the middle as the field drawings indicated?

The field drawings have a tolerance.

[JB987]

Nothing worse than an intolerant field

[waialua359]

Thank God our hanger has a 4 inch up/down stroke play to accomodate that tolerance.

[jblay]

Originally Posted by Cory

The field drawings have a tolerance.

I have a feeling like a lot of teams that utilize a passive climber are going to have issues with that tolerance.

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by jblay

I have a feeling like a lot of teams that utilize a passive climber are going to have issues with that tolerance.

Great point. Ouch!

[Cory]

Originally Posted by jblay

I have a feeling like a lot of teams that utilize a passive climber are going to have issues with that tolerance.

It's clearly stated in the manual.

[jblay]

Originally Posted by Cory

It's clearly stated in the manual.

Hopefully teams will have noticed that and taken it into account although I highly doubt many did.

[Cory]

We've always designed to a 1" total variance. I thought that was what the manual used to state, but it's 1/4" back to 2011.