Wisconsin Regional 2016

[MecaNaught]

Originally Posted by jajabinx124

Congrats to 3102, 2202, and 5855 for winning the Wisconsin regional- especially to fellow MN team 3102 TNT, I'm glad you guys are going to worlds.

I want to give a shout to the finalist alliance as well, especially Team 706 who for the past couple of years have been coming nail bitingly close to winning their 1st regional.

Thank you for the kind words. I've had my fair share of competing with and against you guys, and its always been a pleasure to see what awesome mechanisms you make.

This will be the first time our team is going to worlds, and its all thanks to our students that have put in the time and effort, and the mentors that have given them the possibility to achieve it, along with our fellow Alliance teams 5855 and 2202. Thank you to all the teams that attended. I wasn't there, but from what I saw on the stream (which was actually pretty good quality) there were some good matches. It took us 6 years to get a #1, so if you didn't win this year, don't be discouraged.

Reflecting on our robot, Bob Ross, many didn't have high expectations due to its simplicity and how much we changed around ideas and mechanisms. It turned out that for this competition being fast and reliable against defenses and ball scoring was atleast 1/3 of what you needed in a team.

To give some details to others out there, our robot runs a standard 6 wheel Pneumatic tire andymark chassis, with a basic limit-switched arm and a rotating wheel of surgical tubing... otherwise known as "Spaghetti'.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/43004

There is a wide-angle USB camera relied upon for lining up the arm and increasing visibility when obstacles are in the way.

You can see it all in action at the Lake Superior regional here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6fukP6fKiI