Pre-Ship Scrimage Results

[uzneko]

just curious, did any of the other scrimmages besides DC have the evil small balls of doom? or were they closer to the official size that FIRST put out?
because in DC that seemed to be one of the biggest problems for everyone... running over the majorly deflated evilness

Did any of the other scrimmage groups have that problem too, or are we just 'special'?

[Korbin]

at AZ we had what I think are the standard size balls, but I did not see a team that did not have trouble herding them due to how easy it is to ride up on them.

I know that a few teams were able to handle the 2x ball, but that did them very little good without any balls....

the thing that i learned most from the invitational this year was that we, and most other teams mis judged the importance of the different ways of playing the game. We thought that anyone with a moving base would be able to herd balls, but that is defently not true. the only ones that will be succesfull at it is those that actually gather them. These teams will be the ones to go far in the alliance pickings because the teams that went all out will be able to hang and cap, and do all that, but wont dominate like they thought without at bot that gathers.

so the way i se things working out is this:
the teams that do everything will end up doing one thing (befor the alliance picking), wich will probubly be hanging, because that is the only thing that you can do by yoursealf without a gathering alliance partner. and when the gather bots pick them because they can cap, and hang well, then they will cap when the big goal is full, and then go to hang. This is the alliance them that will win in every reagenal i bet.

furthermore I am predicting that all of the bots that gather balls will be picked, or picking. This is because that robot design was considers less ambitious by most teams, and they decided to build a hanging-2x handling bot.

[sanddrag]

The highest scoring bot I saw was one that parked under the ball dumb got ALL the balls, drove over to the ball chute, and deposited them all.

[Travis Covington]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

The highest scoring bot I saw was one that parked under the ball dumb got ALL the balls, drove over to the ball chute, and deposited them all.

Got any pics? I would love to see that!

PS. Sorry we werent there.. i wanted to see what you guys have been up to!

[ArJubx]

We (#1463) went to the DC afternoon session. We mainly went for the learning experience. This is our first year so it was quite helpful. Although we didn't manage to do much because of poor decisions caused by lack of experience, we managed to get a good idea of what we need to do to fix our issues.

DC had some arena controller issues, so there radio channel conflicts because not many teams brought thier own compitition simulating control box thingy (us included). Also most teams didn't have autonomous code yet (we didn't, I just did all that today after school). The few that did, did barely anything, #225 drove forward like 5 feet and stopped, another team just spun in circles.

Those balls at DC were really messed up, they were smaller and heavier than the regulation ones. So alot of ppl's shots went right between the PVCs because of the reduced size and added mass. We kept rolling right over them....our bot is about 2 inches off the ground....

When we were there, 2 teams managed to hang...1 team took over 4 mins to do it tho, but #225 did it quite fast (1 min or so for the whole process), so they are a team to watch out for. There were many other teams that tried to hang, but either broke or just couldn't do it. From reports of the mourning session only 1 team managed to hang then.

About capping those big double point balls. Most teams had issues getting them. 1 team who used a suction cup jammed the ball all the way down into the mobile goal, another team with a giant metal bowl like suction cup managed to pick it up but held on only for about 2 secs. A few other teams tried to get it, but failed.

While we were there, a team tried that catch all the balls as they fall strategy...only once did they manage to catch more than 2/3 balls.

Our bot is a ball gatherer. We were way too fast (First round I hit the side gate and knocked it off lol, in the process getting our bot stuck on the side lip thing), and had ball control issues (being fixed tommorrow). Second round....we rammed a ball sooooo hard it flew out and hit some ppl in the crowd, lol. We also had some control issues...high speed turning was backwards (right was left, left was right). Even with these issues, we managed to gather a few balls each time, and with our good shooter we managed 35-50 points a couple of rounds.

For those at DC that might not remember who we are...we are the bot that start standing and then proceed to fall over...