Palmetto Regional Week 0.5

[ToddF]

Originally Posted by D.Allred

I know a lot of people are curious about line of sight. My advice is to choose your defense wisely. We stick with all low defenses. They are still hard for most robots and field visibility in greatly improved. With two drawbridges and two portcullis gates, you can't even see the timer clock on the other end.
David

It seems like a "defense agreement" would be beneficial to both sides. For ease of visibility, only choose low defenses.

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by ToddF

It seems like a "defense agreement" would be beneficial to both sides. For ease of visibility, only choose low defenses.

I know this has happened several times with my team.

[Dezion]

Originally Posted by ToddF

It seems like a "defense agreement" would be beneficial to both sides. For ease of visibility, only choose low defenses.

You may wish to view Q804.

Working with your opponent to mutually select 'easier' DEFENSES does not fortify your OUTER WORKS.

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

I know this has happened several times with my team.

[The_ShamWOW88]

Interested to see what the alliance strategies will be this afternoon after quals.....

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by ToddF

It seems like a "defense agreement" would be beneficial to both sides. For ease of visibility, only choose low defenses.

No agreement or collusion necessary. Select the defenses that most benefit you (the ones that let you see). Wow, your opponent did the same thing! Probably because they went through the same thought process and it's worth doing even if your opponent doesn't do it too!

When people talk about "X Agreement" in FRC, they're talking about prisoner's dilemma situations. This is not one of those.

[tindleroot]

179 just died after auto but their partners won the match and breached anyways!!!!

[Landonh12]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

I'm curious if any teams at Palmetto are using 'birds eye' view cameras as a part of their driver stations? (Tall poles with a camera mounted on it)

It would seem that it could help the visibility problem in certain situations but we don't have a full field to test this against.

This game looks crazy rough and it's not even week 1 yet. Can't wait to see how our robot holds up.

We asked on the FRC Q&A if this was legal. They said it was so we're going to be doing this. It helped our drivers in practice tremendously.

[drew212f]

342 dead on field
Programming had their test board on during 2 matches and the drive station was still connected to test board router.... lesson learned!

[Boltman]

Originally Posted by Dezion

You may wish to view Q804.

In FIRST STRONGHOLD, ALLIANCES are expected to to fortify their OUTER WORKS. Working with your opponent to mutually select 'easier' DEFENSES does not fortify your OUTER WORKS. Selecting optimal DEFENSES that fortify your OUTER WORKS, both type and placement, with imperfect knowledge of your opponent's capabilities, is a skill. The approach you are asking about does not engage that skill, is playing beneath your ability, and a violation of T7 and T8.

[Ginger Power]

5327 just shut down 179 for a solid 30-40 seconds. Defense is going to play a huge role in the playoffs.

[logank013]

So... The blue alliance chat is through twitch. Is the streaming through twitch as well? If so, what is the twitch channel for this event? I'm trying to watch mobile. I can in the twitch app. Just not on TBA gameday. Thanks.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by logank013

So... The blue alliance chat is through twitch. Is the streaming through twitch as well? If so, what is the twitch channel for this event? I'm trying to watch mobile. I can in the twitch app. Just not on TBA gameday. Thanks.

The webcast is streaming through Ustream. TBA just embeds the stream on the GameDay page. The twitch chat is the TBA GameDay chat.

[logank013]

Originally Posted by Hallry

The webcast is streaming through Ustream. TBA just embeds the stream on the GameDay page. The twitch chat is the TBA GameDay chat.

Then what is the Ustream channel? Thanks

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by logank013

Then what is the Ustream channel? Thanks

http://www.htcinc.net/portal/streams/robotics/