Regional Video Loads Shoots and Climbs BAE GSR

[Rob Stehlik]

A Robot shooting another Robot in the face on purpose:
http://youtu.be/_YMPCUb2gCc

While I did a poor job of capturing their performance, I got even better footage of 610 shooting a frisbee right at and hitting 2342, who was playing annoying defense on them (0:35).
If you watch 610's drivers during this match, you will see that as the reason they are so successful.
Look back at the video of them shooting the Frisbee at 2342, that was definitely intentional and awesome. They even tried to do it a second time.
This could have easily been a penalty.

It's funny how this could have been perceived by an outside observer. In actual fact, we had a frisbee jam during autonomous and were trying to clear it. I don't think this had any effect on 2342

Thanks for posting these videos. You certainly captured some of the most memorable things to happen at a great tournament. I loved seeing the diversity of the robots, especially the climbers.

[MooreteP]

Originally Posted by Rob Stehlik

It's funny how this could have been perceived by an outside observer. In actual fact, we had a frisbee jam during autonomous and were trying to clear it. I don't think this had any effect on 2342

It was the sequence and how your drivers seemed to turn your shooter to face Team Phoenix and fire, and then shot again while pushing them back....I am probably mistaken. Still, ask your drivers?

I saw that your shooter was jammed, so your actions made sense. Nonetheless, it appeared to be one of the most anthropomorphic actions that I have seen a robot do in a long time.

Thanks for posting these videos. You certainly captured some of the most memorable things to happen at a great tournament. I loved seeing the diversity of the robots, especially the climbers.

Yes, it was a really great week one event. 610 was inspirational and your compatriots from Quebec, 3360 Hyperion, really brought the spirit.

[biancs15]

Originally Posted by MooreteP

It was the sequence and how your drivers seemed to turn your shooter to face Team Phoenix and fire, and then shot again while pushing them back....I am probably mistaken. Still, ask your drivers?

I saw that your shooter was jammed, so your actions made sense. Nonetheless, it appeared to be one of the most anthropomorphic actions that I have seen a robot do in a long time.

I can confirm that this was completely unintentional. We had a disk jam at the beginning of the autonomous period, so when tele-op started, the operator and I were trying to jar it loose. The sporadic driving and consequential random firing of the disks were just attempts of getting the disk out of the shooter. The fact that the first one nailed 2342, and the second one came close was purely accidental. There was surely no malicious intent involved.

[Mr. Lim]

Just to add a third observer to the conversation. We think we had a poorly seated disc in the robot before the match, and had a disc jam in autonomous.

In autonomous, we usually shoot 3, then back-up to the centre line. Our robot remained motionless because of the jammed disc.

At the beginning of tele-op we tried to shoot the discs for a few seconds, and once we realized we were jammed badly, we played defense on the first robot we found: 2342.

In the meantime, our operator went into "jam clearing mode" where he essentially continued to fire our feeder until something came out.

After trading a pretty aggressive bump with 2342, the jam worked itself loose, and you can see a disc dribble out the shooter at 0:32. The drive team can't see this as the robot is turned away from us, and there are several robots in the way, but this video shows it very nicely. The operator continues to fire, and shoots a disc at 2342. At this point, our operator yells "I think we're good again, I'm not sure..." and shortly after another disc emerged from our shooter directed straight at Libby Kamen's head, who was photographing from the sidelines.

Believe me, conspiracy theorists had a field day!

Sorry to burst what was a pretty fun storyline, but I can honestly tell you we had no interest in putting 12 pts worth of discs into an opponent's robot, nor did we want to give Libby a frisbee hair-cut. Those who know me well, know that I'd much rather have had the extra 12 pts!

Hopefully we'll never have to use "jam clearing mode" ever again, but if we do, you can pretty much guarantee something crazy is going to happen!

Thanks for posting these videos! I missed a lot of these moments as I don't get a chance to see a lot of matches... You could produce a pretty sweet FRC promo video from all these moments that you were fortunate enough to capture!

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

....At this point, our operator yells "I think we're good again, I'm not sure..." and shortly after another disc emerged from our shooter directed straight at Libby Kamen's head, who was photographing from the sidelines.

Believe me, conspiracy theorists had a field day!

Sorry to burst what was a pretty fun storyline, but I can honestly tell you we had no interest in putting 12 pts worth of discs into an opponent's robot, nor did we want to give Libby a frisbee hair-cut. Those who know me well, know that I'd much rather have had the extra 12 pts!

You didn't hit me with the jam-clearer during this match.

You hit me in the face during the first quarterfinal... where, you know... our teams were on the same alliance.

Conspiracy theorists, back to your keyboards!

(In all safety-seriousness - team photographers, STAY BACK. I was wearing my safety glasses, and the net slowed it down - but still, OW.)

EDIT:: Just saw the comment in the OP about 4124 knocking Hyperion off the pyramid. I'm not the coach, but I can tell you for sure that was not intentional. We would never, ever do that.