DETRIOT REGIONAL THREAD

[UsmanB]

Originally Posted by NoRemorse

My team was SOO upset on our last match. We went to pick up one of the multiplier balls, and we stalled out our motors. after a few seconds, our robot was doing a wheelie. Arearm was lifing our robot, and NOT THE BALL. at the end of the match, i went to get the ball out myself, the mobile goal lifted off the ground before the ball came out. It was SOO far down in there at the start of the match, and our robot got stuck on the dang thing. it was rediculous. Not much you can do tho, just make sure you look at it before you start i guess.

honestly for us, none of are things worked :S only thing that works is the new drive train that is faster and stronger, are arm cant hook to the bar and we haent even been able to pick up any balls :S yet we still are 4th b/c we were able to do some blocking and our human player made some nice shots and of course our alliances! thanks guys

[UsmanB]

Originally Posted by NoRemorse

My team was SOO upset on our last match. We went to pick up one of the multiplier balls, and we stalled out our motors. after a few seconds, our robot was doing a wheelie. Arearm was lifing our robot, and NOT THE BALL. at the end of the match, i went to get the ball out myself, the mobile goal lifted off the ground before the ball came out. It was SOO far down in there at the start of the match, and our robot got stuck on the dang thing. it was rediculous. Not much you can do tho, just make sure you look at it before you start i guess.

honestly for us, none of our things worked :S only thing that works is the new drive train that is faster and stronger, our arm cant hook to the bar and we havent even been able to pick up any balls :S also our programmer was sick and couldnt make it so we didnt have autonomous mode. yet we still are 4th b/c we were able to do some blocking and our human player made some nice shots and of course our alliances! thanks guys

[Chris Bright]

Hey 33 can you guys hang?!?!? in the mock match i saw your team get to the top of the platform and looked like you were going to hang.

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by Chris Bright

Hey 33 can you guys hang?!?!? in the mock match i saw your team get to the top of the platform and looked like you were going to hang.

We have the arm, winch, and stepping chassis, but not the weight right now. We even have the beginnings of a hook delivery system if you look at the back corner of the bot, but for now it's just a de-capper. Hopefully, we can take 5 lbs off in Canada and have it on by nationals, but for now, no, we can't hang. We only play defense on the steps.

[Jonathanb]

Originally Posted by Paul H

To forgive who? Scream? That was an interesting match, first smashing our flipped robot into the ball corall, then "accidental entanglement" on our alliances' hanging string, breaking free, and going back for more. Oh well, we're still in 5th.

We hope that the Killer Bees can forgive us. We're extremely sorry about pushing your robot into your ball chute. We never should have done that! It was totally our fault. I would like to apologize for the driver's actions and it will never happen again!

[michelleL]

Thanks everyone! We were so happy too...it's been quite a long time since that has happened(i think). eehhehehe. I had fun! Like always, we went nutz! ahahah. I hope that everyone else had as much fun as we did. And a lot of thanks to team 05 for picking us as an alliance, and also to team 313 for the additional help!

-i was surprised that the number 1 seed didn't go onto finals or anything..better luck next time...

Chief Delphi will see everyone at Nationals!!!!

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by Jonathanb

We hope that the Killer Bees can forgive us. We're extremely sorry about pushing your robot into your ball chute. We never should have done that! It was totally our fault. I would like to apologize for the driver's actions and it will never happen again!

Eh, don't worry about it, your alliance captain applogized to me on the field, it's all good.

We had a catastrophic drive train failiure in those last matches which was a contributing factor to us losing. The teeth on our high gear in one gearbox are gone. Let this be a lesson to us and everyone that has any type of plan on building a transmission like ours...USE HARDENED STEEL! We'll be back up and ready with a little work on Thursday in Canada, and hopefully this will never happen again...although we will always check the transmissions in the future before matches.

Interesting factoid: Out of our 12 matches we played, our alliances scored points in only two, and in one they actually got us negative points (10 point penalty, we lost by 5). I guess it's the luck of the draw, but we still seeded third!

Oh, and congrats to our pals, CHIEF DELPHI and teams 5 and 313. That's 2 in a row for 5! Also, big congrats to Oaktown Crewz (1188) for winning the regional Chairman's Award. If I'm not mistaken, that got you guys into nationals right there...good job!

[Jeff Waegelin]

Congrats to everyone who participated at the Detroit Regional. You all made it a great event, and made it very easy on us referees. We didn't call even a quarter of the penalties that were called at Great Lakes, so that says a lot about the quality of teams who competed. Thanks for playing clean and fair, the way it should be. You made it exciting and fun for everyone.

[Dave...]

Originally Posted by Paul H

Oh, and congrats to our pals, CHIEF DELPHI and teams 5 and 313. That's 2 in a row for 5! Also, big congrats to Oaktown Crewz (1188) for winning the regional Chairman's Award. If I'm not mistaken, that got you guys into nationals right there...good job!

Thanks Paul! It was great to be next to your team in the pits. As always, both your robot and team were exceptional.

I really don't know how we accomplished winning two Regionals this year except to give credit to our alliance partners in Pittsburgh and Detroit. Having never won a Regional in our 7 year history, I guess maybe we were due. Without teams 47 and 313, I'm sure that the outcome would not have been the same. They were both terrific alliance partners and the majority of the credit should go to them.

Good luck to everyone else who still has a Regional to compete in or are heading down to Atlanta.

Dave...

[Jonathanb]

Team 1037 would just like to express our appreciation in the gracious professionalism displayed by Team 1286 for loaning quite a few of their battery chargers and batteries to us when we were chosen for the finals.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!

[Big H]

Team #1447 would also like to thank Team #1286 for their gracious professionalism, especially when we lost charge from one of our batteries and our charger malfunctioned. The truly exemplify the nature of FIRST competitions.

Congratulations to all teams that were in the Detroit Regional! It was a great match in the finals!

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by UsmanB

ya i believe that was when cheif delphi hit the robot in autonomous mode

What autonomous mode? Sorry, I had to!

[UsmanB]

Originally Posted by Paul H

What autonomous mode? Sorry, I had to!

lol thanks lost alot of memory after all that screaming, thansk for the corrections

[sha]

Originally Posted by UsmanB

ya i believe that was when cheif delphi hit the robot in autonomous mode and tipped the robot and soon as driver took control, he pushed them straight down excellent strategy. someone correct me if it was in autonomous mode when they got knocked over or afterwards?

got video of channel 4, but i dont think it was much :S only once or twice they scanned the 'mock' audience

we (cheif delphi ) did not kock over 33 in autonomous....... because we didnt have a autonomoue

[meaubry]

Originally Posted by sha

we (cheif delphi ) did not kock over 33 in autonomous....... because we didnt have a autonomoue

The scream team ran into the Bees but I think the Bees had tipped over during autonomous. We got tipped over by 818 duriing one match and unfortunately landed on the side that we can't right ourselves. Toobad because that would have been alot more fun if we weren't on our side.
Sha - yes you are correct what you wrote, but that is not a permanent situation.