Astronomically High Scores at Silicon Valley

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Originally Posted by Cory

Thanks for assuming we were cheating, but if you had asked you would have found out the inspectors and refs decided teams should demonstrate that they can establish a compliant transportation configuration, but in the interests of saving time during setup should bring the robot on in it's starting configuration.

The robot inspection process was complete as every other regional, weight, BOM, transport configuration, etc..

The event ruling was if the starting configuration fit within the area of your robot cart then it was acceptable to transport to the field assembled.

We were using a simple hand truck for moving our robot around. If we orientated our robot so that our pickup system and lift prongs were not protruding, we could stay assembled.

This did truly speed up the match turn around times. And did not create any unsafe transportation conditions at the event that I was aware of.

It was our first time at SVR and would love to come back again. Thanks to everyone that made the regional a pleasant experience. Was great to see and work with the many high level teams showing how it can be done. Amazing!

Good luck to everyone heading off to champs!

Aloha!


Shout out to Devin, thanks for taking time out to "talk story" with us and helping with ideas for the future. Mahalo!