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Re: A Recycle Rush Reflection

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Originally Posted by Necroterra View Post
When I show our team's victory to an outsider, be it a family member, a friend, a potential sponsor, I think their experience is something like this:

"BLUE ALLIANCE WINS" - Ok, so they won. Now what? They get to go to Championships and lose against teams I have never heard of? Uh...
This to me is not all that different than any other high school sport. Your season qualifies you for the playoffs, and the playoffs end with one team winning the State Championship. Maybe it is different because with other sports a State Championship is the highest goal to obtain, since there is no consensus National/World Championship for most high school sports even if there are national tournaments and attempts at rankings by sites like Max Preps. If that's the case the District system will eventually solve that problem; winning a District event is like winning a meet or tournament (helps you rank highly but not required to advance to the playoffs), and winning the District Championship is like winning the State Championship. Eventually with the growth of FRC attending the World Championships could be an unknown concept and not the ultimate goal for most, it already is that way with FLL (25,000 teams with almost 100 District Championships and only about 100 teams attend the World Festival). Competing with out of state teams for high school sports is typical only of very high level programs.

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It happens almost every year, with teams like 610, 16, 973, 177, 971, and 148 (the third champion robots from 2013-2008) falling to one of the last picks of the draft.
I still don't know how 148 (the fastest lap runner in the world) ever fell to the last pick of the #1 alliance in their division. There were only two track balls to use, what else was the third partner going to do?

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This is a very difficult game. Watch videos of matches with combined scores under 30 points and you will understand where I'm coming from. There are quite a few of them.
These game pieces were not conductive to teams that struggle building manipulators. Large, asymmetrical, heavy (8 lbs) game pieces require a lot of attention to detail, and the totes being either packed in the landfill or flipped over from the chute door didn't help. Mentoring a team that were effectively rookies from their experience level, we struggled even though our arm could lift totes because we made our arms about 1" too wide so that they ran into the totes neighboring the one we wanted in the landfill rather than fitting nicely into the gaps between them. We sized to give ourselves a little room to line up when picking up a single stationary tote but never tested on a landfill setup since we didn't have enough game pieces for it.


I did enjoy this game a lot more than I thought I would, but the barrier to a competitive robot was the highest imo since 2010 (oh the 0-0 soccer scores!).
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