1114's Sneak Preview

[engunneer]

Originally Posted by Bochek

No video, but they do it fairly safely, The belay device doesn't do much when its up that high tho.

The belay device is only a safety. It's not supposed to do anything most of the time.

[Nick Lawrence]

That climb.

-Nick

[lorem3k]

Wow, that ascent was ridiculous.
Have there been any other 30 point climbs at GTRE? The only other match I've been able to catch so far was the 182-point one, I was expecting 2056 to have one.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Bochek

Video of them climbing: http://t.co/fFqZq3jPAW

That climb... I love the passive extend/active retract. Nice job, guys!

I was pleasantly surprised when Karthik told me their double stage arm had some design inspiration from a blast from the past - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Ofe...1A5331A7D37056. This is still my favorite series of match videos from one of my favorite events ever - Karthik's "puppy hopped up on caffeine" vs. Tyler's "I must break you" death stare is classic!

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by lorem3k

Wow, that ascent was ridiculous.
Have there been any other 30 point climbs at GTRE? The only other match I've been able to catch so far was the 182-point one, I was expecting 2056 to have one.

2013, and 2994 almost hit it.

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

That climb... I love the passive extend/active retract. Nice job, guys!

I was pleasantly surprised when Karthik told me their double stage arm had some design inspiration from a blast from the past - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Ofe...1A5331A7D37056. This is still my favorite series of match videos from one of my favorite events ever - Karthik's "puppy hopped up on caffeine" vs. Tyler's "I must break you" death stare is classic!

This is the best thing i've seen all day

[Bochek]

They just put down the fastest climb i've seen yet:

http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archive.php?id=61413388

[Cody Burd]

Originally Posted by Bochek

They just put down the fastest climb i've seen yet:

http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archive.php?id=61413388

that was cray

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Bochek

They just put down the fastest climb i've seen yet:

http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archive.php?id=61413388

So...looks like the new time to beat is a 13 second climb

[sgreco]

Wow, 1114, 2056 and 1325 just put up 191 points.

[gyroscopeRaptor]

Your climber is just unreal. With 20 seconds left on the clock, you shoot a set of discs and then proceed to climb, hitting 30 pts with a second left? Amazing.

[Bochek]

Originally Posted by gyroscopeRaptor

Your climber is just unreal. With 20 seconds left on the clock, you shoot a set of discs and then proceed to climb, hitting 30 pts with a second left? Amazing.

http://www.watchfirstnow.com/archive.php?id=61430443

[Racer26]

Originally Posted by engunneer

The belay device is only a safety. It's not supposed to do anything most of the time.

True, however, if 1114's field crew was to drop their robot, the belay would only catch it after it fell ~6". HQ failed to consider the teams that would go for an outside the box solution when designing the belay system.