2601 Three Ball Auton Teaser

[NWChen]

Here's a low-res video of an autonomous test run. Our captain Vinay put this sequence together.

http://youtu.be/M2mGG6dGMTsT

[SenorZ]

Pretty impressive. Do you have a plan on how this can be match legal?

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

Pretty impressive. Do you have a plan on how this can be match legal?

What is illegal about it?

[The_ShamWOW88]

Impressive....does it do it in under 10 seconds?

[dodar]

Does this have copyrighted music in it? It doesn't seem to work on mobile.

[barn34]

It's perfectly legal as shown as long as the other robots who's those balls 'belong' to are in contact with them (and your robot is not), or one of them is placed in the goalie zone at the start of auton.

With that said, it better be a very high confidence perfect 3 for 3 with the shots, otherwise you're really going to have egg on your face when you force your alliance to chase down all those loose balls before you can start any assist cycle scoring runs. Just saying, if you're go for it, better do it right.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by The_ShamWOW88

Impressive....does it do it in under 10 seconds?

Timestamps on the video put it at less than 10 seconds.

[I-DOG]

Originally Posted by SenorZ

Pretty impressive. Do you have a plan on how this can be match legal?

Just imagine two different robots touching the other two balls in the starting config. Then it becomes quite legal.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by I-DOG

Just imagine two different robots touching the other two balls in the starting config. Then it becomes quite legal.

The two robots don't even have to be touching the balls.

[I-DOG]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

The two robots don't even have to be touching the balls.

Well I'm greedy and I want those bonus movement points as well.

[SenorZ]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

The two robots don't even have to be touching the balls.

Oops! Misread G5. Thanks for pointing this out.

[barn34]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

The two robots don't even have to be touching the balls.

You might want to check that. It's a bit ambiguous, but it appears that an auton ball has to be placed touching a robot to be 'loaded' on the field. The exception is for goalie bots as there ball has the option to be placed anywhere in the white zone on your side of the truss as long as it's not in direct contact with another robot already loaded (or in contact) with their own ball. So, for this to work, at least how most everyone I've talked to has interpretted it, is that one of the balls will have to be in bumper contact with another alliance partner and not in contact with the shooting robot and the other robot would be able to be placed in the goalie zone. Or, if they prefer, also in bumper contact with the other ball.

I'm not misinterpretting the rules, am I? If so, please, someone clarify that for me. Thanks!

[Mr. Van]

First of all - this is a great multi-ball auto mode!

By my reading of G5, this starting staging (in the video) would be valid only if the red ball were not touching the robot. (It's hard to tell if this is the case). Also, the only way to still have the 5 points for the other two alliance partners is to have them start in the white zone, one touching the red and the other the blue ball.

If the red ball is not touching the robot, and the alliance partners were no-shows or in the goalie zone, it would be legal.

- Mr. Van
Coach, Robodox

[NWChen]

The red ball was not touching the robot in this test.

[EricLeifermann]

Originally Posted by barn34

You might want to check that. It's a bit ambiguous, but it appears that an auton ball has to be placed touching a robot to be 'loaded' on the field. The exception is for goalie bots as there ball has the option to be placed anywhere in the white zone on your side of the truss as long as it's not in direct contact with another robot already loaded (or in contact) with their own ball. So, for this to work, at least how most everyone I've talked to has interpretted it, is that one of the balls will have to be in bumper contact with another alliance partner and not in contact with the shooting robot and the other robot would be able to be placed in the goalie zone. Or, if they prefer, also in bumper contact with the other ball.

I'm not misinterpretting the rules, am I? If so, please, someone clarify that for me. Thanks!

You can have more than 1 robot start in the goalie zone if you choose.