Unexpected Plays That Make the Crowd Go Wild!

[BBray_T1296]

Playing defense, we accidentally pushed 148 into a catch at Dallas
http://youtu.be/w9bN3IwRWMc?t=2m26s

[Tyler2517]

Showing the agility of our swerve. Our team calls it "parallel parking". Still think we should have gotten the penalty for possession of the other alliances ball.

Last 15 seconds of the match. http://youtu.be/1oVNrp2L1EQ
Not the best match in the world but i am proud of it.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Accidental catch by 125 in our match with them at Beantown Blitz! It was a pretty awesome moment and match. http://youtu.be/FfpxGUFrfy8

[BriteBacon]

1714's shot bounces off the high and hits 5179 and bounces into the high goal.

http://youtu.be/hJ7wODfquuI?t=1m32s

[pabeekm]

This year whenever we first did our full court truss pass at an event, the reaction from the crowd was priceless. A mix of gasps, cheers, and cries of "How is that even legal?!?"

Sadly, there's no video from those practice matches, but here's what we did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76lFi5nRXNc&t=0m39s

[ThunderousPrime]

http://youtu.be/O13JbkeXFG0?t=2m3s

This is an interesting clip I recently found. Watch at 2:03 as 3528 (blue) runs across the field and scores a high goal on the run. Then off camera the ball bounces back into play through the high goal and bounces out of play. A bizarre sequence of events.

[Nuttyman54]

The Scene: 2007 Einstein Final 3
Newton Champs 190, 987 and 177 vs Archimedes Champs 233, 71 and 179.

Everyone is convinced Hammond is a sure lock to get their 5th championship title, having never lost on Einstein before. They've got the ramps, 233 has the tube scoring, 179 brings the defense.

Tubes are scattered all over the rack. Nobody has long rows and it's going to come down to the endgame ramps. The match is winding down and it's close, but Archimedes has the advantage on the tubes. 71 pulls back, clears out the zone and drops their ramps. It's a clean drop this time, unlike in Final Match 2 where one ramp failed to go down. That mishap cost them the sure win and forced the rubber match, but this time everything deploys properly.

It's all about who can get up cleanly and net the 30 point endgame bonus. 233 and 179 are practiced and sure-handed, if the ramps are down they get up. It seems all but certain that Archimedes will take it.

And then The High Rollers come screaming across the field... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznDtrAv7sA#t=108

[hardcopi]

A couple of plays came to mind for me.

In 2012 we were on an alliance with with BOB and Star Trec. We were a cycler they were both 30 point climbers. At the end of the match they were climbing and we ended up shooting between them as they both made their 30 point climb. Then we did our 10 point hang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUr0XPCCeAA

In 2010 our team managed to do the double hang in competition with Enginerds. (Before my time, but the crowd went absolutely nuts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obXxvgInsI0

There was also a match at MSC that I cannot remember, but our alliance member was a tall bot and he tipped. He was leaning against the side wall early in the match. Our driver made his cycle then swung around knocked our ally upright and then continued on. He just did it so cleanly it was great.

[2348humanplayer]

One of the best moments to me was back in Aerial Assist at our home regional, the Hawaii Regional. We were the only team there capable of doing a climb on the pyramid, and we went for it over and over again, but could never get a good catch on the corners to climb. However, one match, we were able to catch the bottom corner well and climbed. We stopped the climb as soon as we were in 20 point range, just because I didn't want to risk it. As soon as we got past that point, we were REALLY sketchy that high. But we stopped it there, and the audience went NUTS as we were going up, even more when the buzzer sounded and we were still in the air. Matches stopped for nearly 5 minutes as EVERYONE wanted to get a picture of it XD It was incredible. Unfortunately, there is no match footage, but someone did a compilation of the competition, and put it in there. Feel free to watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJcGKJW0ug

The only comment on there is mine, with links to one of our climb attempts, as well as a short clip of our 20-pt climb.

[Michael Corsetto]

Showing the world how Aerial Assist is played Week 1. Finals Match 2 at IE, 399 catches the ball NFL Wide Reciever-style, not once, but twice! You can actually see the crowd go wild!

http://youtu.be/dhY_p3qhSkY

[bEdhEd]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Showing the world how Aerial Assist is played Week 1. Finals Match 2 at IE, 399 catches the ball NFL Wide Reciever-style, not once, but twice! You can actually see the crowd go wild!

http://youtu.be/dhY_p3qhSkY

Had we won the third match in semifinals, we would be in this match against you guys. We would have gotten our butts kicked!

[dragon_pilot]

Originally Posted by Tyler2517

Showing the agility of our swerve. Our team calls it "parallel parking". Still think we should have gotten the penalty for possession of the other alliances ball.

Last 15 seconds of the match. http://youtu.be/1oVNrp2L1EQ
Not the best match in the world but i am proud of it.

I actually was on the team that pushed the ball into you guys, we had asked about why there wasn't a penalty and they said that it was because it wasn't purposeful that the ball went into your robot, and that it was accidental

[JamesCH95]

Way back when, before the days of plentiful powerful motors, high-speed pickups were nearly unheard of. 95's robot in 2002, Feynman, was very rare in that he had a full-width ball intake and was capable of collecting game pieces at full speed (of almost 10ft/s, which was REALLY fast back then). He was capable of collecting ~20 soccer balls in just a few seconds, and did so as the first move in almost every match he played in. It was an unexpected play because very few, if any, other robots could do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL6VtO5VSd8

The next year, 95 had a 4-wheel serve robot, KC. But 4-wheel swerve is not what was surprising about her. KC had two pneumatic lifts that jacked her up onto the top platform of the bridge. These had been setup such that they would automatically deploy as the robot was disabled. The picture below is from one of the few matches were KC functioned perfectly. (You know how everyone says "don't try swerve unless you've prototyped it in the offseason"? I feel that 95 practically invented that saying in 2003.) Anyway, in this match it was obvious that without the bonus points from KC being on the top platform our alliance was going to lose, and the commentator made sure everyone knew it, he said something like: "oh well, 95 can't get on the platform... it looks like their alliance is going to lose this one, they really need those bonus points!" And as time expired there was a small flinch from KC as her lifts deployed right at the buzzer... a few moments of relative quiet passed and then she calmly popped up a few inches after the robots were all disabled, and the crowd went wild. We won the match!

This picture is the moment that KC's lifts deployed. The look of recognition of what is happening is spreading across the faces of the announcer, the field crew, and even Dean!

[Rjmartin127]

Match 41 of the Galileo Division this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFjOl4B6tg#t=133

At 2:15, 4967, That One Team, Trussed it over, the ball bounced off of 176, went out of play then back into play. We chased it down, but were met by some good defense by 176. They let off at the last second for us to score a last second low goal with all three assists.

[Alan Anderson]

My "crowd goes wild" memory is from Archimedes 2004.

Rookie team 1241, Theory 6, had a unique strategy. Their robot opened up a large netted funnel to catch the deluge of game balls falling onto the field from over the alliance station. It would then drive to the corner and deliver all the balls to their human player for scoring in the goals. In practice matches, this was amazing to watch. They were definitely a team to pay attention to.

I think it was the Circuit Stompers who placed a large "doubling ball" atop 1241's hopper during their first qualification match, just before the purple game balls came pouring down. That moment was even more amazing to see.