Double Rookie All-Star Club

[EricH]

Originally Posted by steelerborn

Thankfully the swerve drive issues were fixed at this event. And I am happy to report we did not have a single swerve module fail on us.

Yeah... now you have main breaker issues. (TWICE???? C'mon, man, you should have replaced it after the first time... )

[Poseidon5817]

Originally Posted by EricH

Yeah... now you have main breaker issues. (TWICE???? C'mon, man, you should have replaced it after the first time... )

It's hard to fix it because we haven't been able to recreate it yet.

[steelerborn]

Originally Posted by EricH

Yeah... now you have main breaker issues. (TWICE???? C'mon, man, you should have replaced it after the first time... )

Main breaker was replaced, seems to be another issue...

We run hard on the practice field for over 5 minutes no problems at all. Going over defenses and running cycles, the motors get hot but the breaker never trips.

The practice bot we run hard in the shop for long durations, and still no breaker issues.

We get to the field and drive for about half the match, and the breaker trips......
Ahhhh

Don't know what the current draw is but, our electrical mentor checked and it did not seem that high. He is going to put a scope meter on the practice bot with the kids and try and figure this one out.

I'm going to get the kids working on some potential mechanical solutions for it.

Regardless we are moving the location of the breaker for sure.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by XaulZan11

Why is Rookie All-Star different from Chairmans, which can only be won once at a regional level per year? (I'm assuming this is from the old rule that teams could only present for Chairmans at one event?).

Yeah this kind of irks me a bit too... Not to second guess a judges job, but spread the love a bit! Especially for a rookie award...

This is not at all meant to take away from the great job 5817 has done and they deserve to be at champs... but now one less rookie team will be there.

[Joey1939]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Yeah this kind of irks me a bit too... Not to second guess a judges job, but spread the love a bit! Especially for a rookie award...

This is not at all meant to take away from the great job 5817 has done and they deserve to be at champs... but now one less rookie team will be there.

It seems like the wildcard generated from winning RAS twice should go to a rookie, but I don't know how you would decide which one. It would be easier to just limit it to one win per year, spread the wealth.

[Poseidon5817]

Originally Posted by Joey1939

It seems like the wildcard generated from winning RAS twice should go to a rookie, but I don't know how you would decide which one. It would be easier to just limit it to one win per year, spread the wealth.

If you want to get technical, we generated the third and final wildcard at OCR this weekend, which gave the 2nd pick of the Finalist alliance a ticket to champs. The 2nd pick of alliance 2 was a rookie, so it all worked out in the end.

[JacobD]

Originally Posted by steelerborn

We run hard on the practice field for over 5 minutes no problems at all. Going over defenses and running cycles, the motors get hot but the breaker never trips.

We get to the field and drive for about half the match, and the breaker trips......
Ahhhh

We were having the same issue at our first event this year. After replacing a few breakers on the PDB and lowering the total output of our drive motors, it seemed to be fine. Hopefully all will stay fixed for next week.

[Dr. Robot]

Can't wait to meet the Uni-Rex team at Champs. Your robot, and your Jurassic Park reveal video, are awesome.

Regarding the 2x RAS Club, I'd hope FRC would always try to give it to a different team at a regional with a previous RAS winner (from the same season) unless there were only 2 rookies and one of them could never get their robot to turn on. Considering we won RAS at the Sacramento regional, I was most definitely rooting for another hard-working rookie team to win it at SVR.

Speaking of which, we couldn't be happier for Team 5940. It was a pleasure to have our pit right next to you, go up against you in eliminations, and watch your team go through the same incredible range of emotions we felt in Sacramento. Congratulations!

[Akash Rastogi]

When I was on 3929, we had a pretty cool season. This was back before RAS and Rookie Inspiration were given out at the Division level. We lost Championship Rookie All Star to 3990. Definitely my proudest moment in FRC so far.

http://i.imgur.com/3gj74U8.png

[nlknauss]

The Storm Robotics Team, FRC 2729, won it at the DC and Philadelphia Regional in 2009.

[tprize]

5586 only went to one regional but we were Rookie All-Stars at Wisconsin Regional and Curie-Carver Subdivision at World's.

[mitchyg98]

Team 6153 won the RAS at the Rhode Island District Event, and we would have won it at the Pine Tree Event , but we were ineligible. (at the award ceremony, the speaker said that 6153 would have won, but because we already did we couldn't win twice) The speaker said that both of the teams that deserved it had already won it (5902 and 6153) and they couldn't give it out... even though there were two other rookie teams that hadn't earned it. So, I guess that they just didn't give out the RAS award? But 6153 would be in this club if we weren't in a district system.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robot

Speaking of which, we couldn't be happier for Team 5940. It was a pleasure to have our pit right next to you, go up against you in eliminations, and watch your team go through the same incredible range of emotions we felt in Sacramento. Congratulations!

Thanks! It was great being next to you guys as well. Great meeting everyone and seeing your fantastic robot!

[Peyton Yeung]

Originally Posted by mitchyg98

Team 6153 won the RAS at the Rhode Island District Event, and we would have won it at the Pine Tree Event , but we were ineligible. (at the award ceremony, the speaker said that 6153 would have won, but because we already did we couldn't win twice) The speaker said that both of the teams that deserved it had already won it (5902 and 6153) and they couldn't give it out... even though there were two other rookie teams that hadn't earned it. So, I guess that they just didn't give out the RAS award? But 6153 would be in this club if we weren't in a district system.

I believe 6012 won rookie all star at both district events they went to here in Indiana. Kinda odd since both of the rookies in the state went to the same events and only one got the award.

[hrench]

I'm surprised that many rookie teams have the money to go to multiple competitions.

I was looking over the numbers for my state (Kansas) and this year of 22 teams, only four competed twice.

Whenever I talk about starting a FIRST team to new schools, money is the number one concern.