2015 Week Zero Lessons Learned

[Chief Hedgehog]

From MN's Event today - I agree with some of your points, but have differing opinions on others.

1. Yes - the field will be a mess.
2. We had exactly '0' RC grapplers work (although 3130 had the apparatus - just didn't get to see it work). So if you are seeing success in your area, that means there is hope!
3. In our Week Zero a few had success with HP Loading zone - most were field pick-up without a lot of success.
4. Cycling (3-4 totes stacked) is difficult with most teams.
5. throwing litter can be effective if you practice. We had a lot of litter at the end of the day in each match.
6. Lining up with the HP Station is EXTREMELY difficult just using the perspective from the driver stations.

About 80% of the teams were Ri3d clones - many were Greenhorns. We did see a number with the Team Indiana forks.

Nice to see things working in the Pacific Northwest! Good Luck to your team this season!

Originally Posted by jojoguy10

The Corvallis (Oregon) High School Week 0 event went quite well for us!

Here are a couple things I noticed:

• The field does get quite messy
• There are some teams that specialize in one thing (e.g. just getting RC's)
• Getting totes from the feeder station is a lot easier than getting them from the Landfill (for our team)
• We were able to make 2 stacks of 3 totes (with an RC and litter) within the Teleop time
• Throwing the litter is pointless. It just gets on your side of the field and none of the robots we able to move it into the landfill
• Looking at the point above, I hope nobody will try to throw the litter and waste it (when they could go into RC's)
• For feeder station bots (like ours), it's hard to line up perfectly with the angle that the driver station is to the feeder

That's all I can think of for now. I think we learned a lot about strategies (e.g. working with specialized alliance partners to save steps) as well. Very informative!