Congrats to this year's champions: 330 2481 120 1086

[Adithya Balaji]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

This.

Major congrats to the winning alliance members! This years matches were some of the most exciting in FIRST history.

Definitely! My highlight was 254 pushing an e-stopped robot to cap the tower in quals on Newton.

[Nightwing430]

Originally Posted by sodizzle

I was unsure of what the foul was for? Was there an official ruling for what the foul was called for?

This is what I want to know to, if anyone has the information can you please let us know??

[teku14]

Can someone clarify OP's fouls during the final matches? I was told that they were rolling balls over a defense. Can someone explain?

Congrats on the winning alliance though. Absolutely incredible finals.

[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by teku14

Can someone clarify OP's fouls during the final matches? I was told that they were rolling balls over a defense. Can someone explain?

Congrats on the winning alliance though. Absolutely incredible finals.

From what I heard it was not backing up enough after pinning.

Originally Posted by Galum

From what I gathered - pinning, didn't back-up 6 feet

Anyway, congrats to 330, 2481, 120, and 1086!

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by teku14

Can someone clarify OP's fouls during the final matches? I was told that they were rolling balls over a defense. Can someone explain?

Probably more likely 1405 accidentally hitting someone in the outerworks.

Nonetheless 1405 was brilliant with their defending skills!

[Nightwing430]

My team congratulates everyone who got to make it to Worlds!! This was our first time coming to this event and we all had fun!!! Everyone was so nice and helped us out when we needed it! Thanks to everyone!!

Also congratulations to the top 8 teams in the finals for making it that far! And congratulations to the winners of Worlds! I can't wait for next years event to see how far everyone can make it!

Good luck and thanks to everyone!!

[mikemat]

congratulations to the last 'world' champion alliance

[Kingland093]

Congrats to the winners, especially to 330's amazing driving! You guys really earned it!!

[blackwood]

Congrats to all... It looked like quite a battle.

I just got done watching a replay of the Finals matches. Take it for what it's worth, but considering the end of the 3 matches, if you go back to watch the beginning of the the first match. There is a shot of one of the judges as they are playing the song "Waving Flag" ... waving his flag. Just kind of a weird foreshadow of things to come.

Again congrats to all, wish I could have been there.

[Boltman]

Congrats Beach Bots..yea CA does it again! and the awesome kudos to rest of your alliance.

What a super hard path to take through 1678 and 148 and the international dream team finalists... awesome job especially righting yourself after being upside down! That tied ending was absolutely amazing, I watched it live from my phone.....came down to 5 pt penalty. Wow.

Big kudos to TorBots, Citrus Circuits and Code Orange too for making it and in some cases going deep into the Einstein field and winning your subdivisions, love all the California teams I got to see this season personally in SD,CV and OC, you all rocked it.

[evanperryg]

This was the most exciting Einstein I've seen, including the one my team was in, and the other one where I was 10 feet from the field. The winning alliance went to 3 matches in every series of eliminations, an 330's situps (them abs tho) had me on the edge of my seat. Either of those alliances could have won, and there was no clear "best alliance," which is what made it so incredible.

The thing is, either of these alliances would have made history. 2481 is now the first Caterpillar team to win a world championship. It's also the first time an Illinois team has won champs since 2011. 2481 is absolutely the best of the IL teams, and it seems very fitting to me that they would hold this honor. Their victory is, at least to me, symbolic of the massive growth of the Illinois Caterpillar teams over the last few years. There's a whole lot of teams out here who are on their way up, and 2481 is leading the charge. #teamcat

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42

From what I heard it was not backing up enough after pinning.


Anyway, congrats to 330, 2481, 120, and 1086!

Originally Posted by BrennanB

Probably more likely 1405 accidentally hitting someone in the outerworks.

Nonetheless 1405 was brilliant with their defending skills!

Nope, 'twas a pin call. I saw the flag go up, and the pointing hand. Pinning, 1405.

And a harder-fought match you'll never see...

[TheBoulderite]

When teams train their driveteams in the future and the new members ask how they should drive, the mentors will show them Einstein Semifinals 1-2.

[xjschwen]

I think the first tie breaker should be auto points.


After all this is robotics and there should be more credit for the teams that make things happen in auto.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by xjschwen

I think the first tie breaker should be auto points.


After all this is robotics and there should be more credit for the teams that make things happen in auto.

Fair enough. Matter of fact, Auto is the first rankings tiebreaker (and that ignores fouls) and the third playoffs tiebreaker (the second being Breach and Capture points).

Now, here's the question. What happens if the reason for the tie is that the alliance who scored more in auto was continually fouling their opponents? I don't mean, say, boulder hoarding, but let's go with more pinning/G24-type stuff. Basically, they score more in auto, then play "dirty" (or, more likely, "borderline"). Does your answer change?