UCF regional 2004 update

[Zorkinian]

Yeah, ComBBAT was taking a beating - they really didn't like your basket, and felt a need to really mess it up. I saw you just had to retract it to protect it near the end of some rounds. Now, if that's what it was like during qualification matches...just imagine what the finals are going to be like. It'll be like last year all over again - except with giant towers and mighty hooks and arms.

[miketwalker]

I understand that yea, you wanna stop us from catching the balls... but yea... it's kind've annoying in the pits to work on that. However, we have come up with a better way for our next regional to stop that. But yea, for finals... I pray that we are chosen by a team that can knock off the 10 point ball in autonomous, or else just.... it'll hurt. However, today we've had no teams that can hit that 10 pt. ball which causes a problem, if we had that.... we'd be good. We'll have our rollers working tommorow morning efficiently to get all those balls out (we've had a binding problem, we couldn't test it before shipping cause they sent us the wrong balls and all which caused all these binding problems)

[Zorkinian]

Yeah, I'll be glad to see you guys running at full power, so to speak. I really want to see a human player get a chance to fire 16-18 balls in succession. Regardless, you have had pretty poor luck with your partner's autonomous (spelling?) modes, but that's just luck of the draw. If you guys get that ejection mechanism fixed, you'll be golden.

On a side note, wasn't it kinda interesting that they stopped projecting the rankings after mid-day? Soap108 has the unoffical ones, but do you know anything about what happened to the official rankings?

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Zorkinian

On a side note, wasn't it kinda interesting that they stopped projecting the rankings after mid-day? Soap108 has the unoffical ones, but do you know anything about what happened to the official rankings?

A problem occured with displaying them at mid-day. Whenever they tried getting it up to display it errord and restarted. So they had to shut it off for the day, but the ones on Soap108's website are correct. FIRST is working on a patch this evening up in NH and is uploading it to the regional tommorow morning so it'll be working again tommorow.

[Zorkinian]

Alright, we've made it to the last day of competition - good luck to all teams!