Teams Capable of 3+ Full Stacks

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by MarcD79

It was a real pleasure to be field reset at NE Champs on Saturday. Watching 1519, 195, 2170 & more. The one to watch is clearly 195. I have been watching them all season. They are far better than 1519.They CONSISTANTLY place at least 4 6-stacks with RC & noodles. They will only be better in STL. I predict 5-6 full stacks w/RC & noodles. Their HP is quick & accurate. Prediction; they WILL win their division & go on to Einstein. They WILL be at least finalists.

195 has never made 4 fully capped stacks of 6 in competition. I've watched. They quite often made 3 stacks though.

[Arhowk]

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I don't have a video of it atm but check out the Lansing or midland finals, they won both consistently pulling off 3 stacks of 6++

[ThunderousPrime]

Also since when has 3683 (Team Dave) been working from the HP station. Maybe I missed it at Windsor but I thought they were a Landfill bot.

[svenw]

Also since when has 3683 (Team Dave) been working from the HP station. Maybe I missed it at Windsor but I thought they were a Landfill bot.

We can operate out of the human player zone with help from our ramp, or from the landfill. We played about 50-50 at Windsor and Waterloo depending on the strength of our alliance. During the playoffs at Windsor we were purely landfill.

[themccannman]

Pro-tip: you only need 36 point stacks to lock in the win. Making 4+ perfect stacks solo won't mean much in 2 weeks.

[Kevin Leonard]

I'm told 3683 can only make 3 full stacks if they're running from the HP.

[Banderoonies]

You are correct, 195 easily puts up 3+ capped six-stacks plus noodle EVERY match.

However, when positioned at driver station 2 or 3, we maximize even further having about 20 seconds left to continue to stack whatever totes remain.

Here is one match video I found with 15 seconds remaining after the 3rd stack is placed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLCX6vv33Gc

Our human player does not waste any time, her body movements have been carefully timed to maximize output. Practices 7 days a week like an athlete till she's exhausted.

[mott]

Originally Posted by Kpchem

At the Colorado Regional, 1619 was able to do this fairly consistently. I only ever saw them work from the feeder station.

http://upacreekrobotics.smugmug.com/...2015/i-L9dDggk

Above is a link to our "enhanced" video of Qual Match 13 from Colorado. Like many teams, we've been working to "up" our game before St. Louis!

*Credit to Ed and our awesome A/V team for the video. We'll try to get some more Colorado videos up soon.

[Abhishek R]

Before people start making some hard predictions, I want to remind people that the cans are still the limiting resource on the field. If you can make 3+ stacks, that's great for quals, but how the divisions work out may decide matches if the fast can grabbers end up unevenly spread out across each division.

Tl;Dr cans still > everything

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

Tl;Dr cans still > everything

That is assuming the two "best" can grabbers in the division pair up, which I think is more likely to not happen than happen. I predict most of the division final matches will be split on cans and thus stacking will win most divisions.

That being said, I expect the world champion alliance to come from the unlikely division where the two best can grabbers pair up. So, I do agree with the common belief that can grabbing will, in the end, be all the matters.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

That is assuming the two "best" can grabbers in the division pair up, which I think is more likely to not happen than happen. I predict most of the division final matches will be split on cans and thus stacking will win most divisions.

That being said, I expect the world champion alliance to come from the unlikely division where the two best can grabbers pair up. So, I do agree with the common belief that can grabbing will, in the end, be all the matters.

The weaker alliance wants a can battle, they don't want to split the cans, and the weaker alliance should be blue going into finals, thus they get to choose if they split the cans or go for the battle of the fastest.

[MarcD79]

Originally Posted by ThunderousPrime

With only 30 totes behind the glass only 5 six stacks are possible from the HP Station.

An aside who's been able to do 4 capped 5/6 stacks in a single match? I know 1114 and 254 have.

MY mistake, they will have another team that pulls from the landfill, who can do 2 or 3 full stacks w/RC & noodle to make a total of at least 5-6...maybe more.

[MarcD79]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

195 has never made 4 fully capped stacks of 6 in competition. I've watched. They quite often made 3 stacks though.

They get better every time. Only time will tell. But they have gotten attention, you admit you have watched them. By the way, I am in no way associated with this team. I am with team 176. I just think they have a great chance this year.

[Clem1640]

1640 made three capped stacks of 6 totes (2 with litter) at MAR Championships.

[13spangs]

At our first regional 1756 almost cleared the landfill our first try. When our tether was knotted at the last minute we were force to try it. If our driver would have hit it the correct way of 3,3,6,6 I'm pretty confident we would have cleared it. The feeder station most of the time was a lot more consistent and we could easily produce three stack form there by our second regional, reason being why we haven't attempted to clear the whole landfill again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGww...C9wQRyaHUmAe_O