Climbing and dumping not winning?

[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by dcarr

Yep, it was our camera mount of all things - it was bent such that the drivers had no idea if they were lined up to climb (we'd been battling pyramid alignment issues all weekend, finally gotten them solved, only to have this happen, naturally more fixes will happen for LV).

Our team agreed early on that a 50 point climb and dump alone wouldn't cut it - an 18 point auto and telop shooting are needed to balance things out and prevent the "one-trick pony" problem. We really only had everything working together at the very end of LA, it certainly takes time.

Alignment, alignment, alignment that is the bane of existence of all climbers. I seen so many corner climbers including my own being slightly off and falling off. Not only you have to a have a fast climb but you need to pull yourself into alignment quickly.

That is why I really like 1114 system, they seem to have a wider window for alignment allowing for a quick alignment when they climb for the ten point mark.

No point in climbing quickly if it take you 30 seconds to line up. Your just going to be too slow. If our robot can't align quickly, we certainly won't be in the running to win Las Vegas. Though the odds of wining in LV are more related to if 987 is on your alliance or not.