What's Your Most Unusual Field Debris?

[Roger]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

In Toronto somebody left their English homework behind.
They never came back to get it either.

Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England. -- Homer Simpson

[SteveB2977]

There was a Hotel Loyalty card in the Robot Barf box at Lake Superior this year. Not a room key (which would also be odd) but someone's (probably a mentors) hotel program card. Hope they tracked their points online!

[gburlison]

Not sure if this is what you meant, but during the semifinals of the Colorado Regional, we dislodged the Rock Wall and traveled about 3 ft with it under the front of our bot before the match was halted due to a field fault. The match was replayed. In a previous match on Friday, we dislodged the moat, but it did not get stuck under our bot.

[kyle_hamblett]

At North Shore, our launcher decided to angle up while we were in the neutral zone. In order to challenge, we had to do the moat and left the chain on the back of it lying there. The master link was NOT a pretty sight.

[protoserge]

Acorns!

[vhcook]

Originally Posted by protoserge

Acorns!

If there's a longer story behind this, I'd love to hear it.

[protoserge]

Originally Posted by vhcook

If there's a longer story behind this, I'd love to hear it.

It was a mystery for most of the competition until I discovered what was going on. It turned out a driver carried them in his pocket and they would fall out when he set up the robot.

No cool robot use of acorns, though I'd love to see a creative use for them!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by gburlison

Not sure if this is what you meant, but during the semifinals of the Colorado Regional, we dislodged the Rock Wall and traveled about 3 ft with it under the front of our bot before the match was halted due to a field fault. The match was replayed. In a previous match on Friday, we dislodged the moat, but it did not get stuck under our bot.

Had someone do that at Ventura, too--matter of fact, that image from 900 matched it perfectly. Damaged the robot in question so we replayed the next morning.

Funny thing, the next match had to be replayed for the exact same reason (except the rock wall didn't leave the platform).

Had a pair of dikes on the field at Ventura, nobody claimed them to my knowledge.

I've seen some standards being picked up by the field crew.

But the best one had to be the robot that left 1/4 of their drivetrain on their own castle's batter while playing defense (4WD, with a pair of raised wheels in the middle for obstacles), which dragged that corner and raised the opposite wheel, so now they were a 2WD, and somehow managed to "limp" to their Secret Passage, get across the Neutral Zone, and make it for a Challenge. I was highly impressed.

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by EricH

But the best one had to be the robot that left 1/4 of their drivetrain on their own castle's batter while playing defense (4WD, with a pair of raised wheels in the middle for obstacles), which dragged that corner and raised the opposite wheel, so now they were a 2WD, and somehow managed to "limp" to their Secret Passage, get across the Neutral Zone, and make it for a Challenge. I was highly impressed.

Wow! Amazing robot construction to be drivable like that, and good driver skill too for managing to get it to the batter!

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by EricH

But the best one had to be the robot that left 1/4 of their drivetrain on their own castle's batter while playing defense (4WD, with a pair of raised wheels in the middle for obstacles), which dragged that corner and raised the opposite wheel, so now they were a 2WD, and somehow managed to "limp" to their Secret Passage, get across the Neutral Zone, and make it for a Challenge. I was highly impressed.

Please tell me that there's a match video of this! I'd love to see it!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Whippet

Please tell me that there's a match video of this! I'd love to see it!

I'd have to remember the match number. It was one of the 4 Chinese teams. TBA doesn't have video yet (mock glare in the general direction of the webcasting team).

[TheNerdJedi]

In NYC, we had our intake roller fall off right during tele-op. It popped while crossing the moat. We didn't realize it fell until I went over to move the robot after the match and noticed it in the moat.

[IndieWaves]

Originally Posted by Rebecca8

In the Lake Superior Regional this year, I looked down for a second and when I looked up, a battery was a good 4 ft from the robot it had come from. No one knew what had happened.

I saw this happen both at the PNW Wilsonville and Philomath districts. Big hits and going over the defenses fast has really taken a toll on battery holders. At least the batteries were disconnecting themselves instead of getting dragged.

Originally Posted by marshall

Does the Rock Wall count as debris?

If the Rock Wall counts as field debris, so does the moat. (PNW Wilsonville District, Qualification Matches)

EDIT: In the gif, you can even see the Head Ref reacting and turning to the FTA.


IMG_1618 by FIRSTWA Media Crew, on Flickr