Best Matches caught on Tape

[theory6]

Originally Posted by J Flex 188

archimedes QF 1.1. watch 33, 60 and 1241's first rounds. that was one of the scariest alliances I have ever seen picked!

QF 1.2 was even weirder with 2 popped 2X's

Do you happen to know of any video links to those specific matches?

Thanks in advance

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by theory6

Do you happen to know of any video links to those specific matches?

Thanks in advance

Here ya go.

Archimedes Quarterfinal Match 1
Archimedes Quarterfinal Match 2

Match 2 is definitely one of the saddest matches I've ever witnessed. The alliance of Team 60 and 1241 have the match easily under control, but at the end Team 60 get's caught on a popped ball preventing them from hanging, and 1241 accidently makes contact with a yellow ball, changing the score from 155-85, to 80-85. I was right down on the field for that match, and the range of emotions was intense.

[Paul H]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Match 2 is definitely one of the saddest matches I've ever witnessed. The alliance of Team 60 and 1241 have the match easily under control, but at the end Team 60 get's caught on a popped ball preventing them from hanging, and 1241 accidently makes contact with a yellow ball, changing the score from 155-85, to 80-85. I was right down on the field for that match, and the range of emotions was intense.

Man, you said it. I was operator, and that was DEFINATELY my saddest moment in FIRST....that alliance was dangerous, and no offense to any other alliances, but I believe we were the best alliance at the competition with the worst luck (a little biased, I know).

In the first one, watch team 60 capping our goal just as we unload about 15 balls to our human player. If you watch closely, our HP actually had to try to shoot into the mobile goal, which was in front of Team 60's driver station. Aw man, those were some sad times. I watched those videos a couple of times, and they're painful, to say the least.

After I watch those, I watch This match to cheer myself up. We were about 2 seconds away from the national high score. If 71 would have hung, we would have had 240 points.

Other good ones, all at the 2004 IRI:
33 and 980 vs. 47 and 111...need I say more?
Chief Delphi barely decaps, winning the match
We block 45 from capping...still loose the match by 1 ball, but it was crazy

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Here ya go.

Archimedes Quarterfinal Match 1
Archimedes Quarterfinal Match 2

Match 2 is definitely one of the saddest matches I've ever witnessed. The alliance of Team 60 and 1241 have the match easily under control, but at the end Team 60 get's caught on a popped ball preventing them from hanging, and 1241 accidently makes contact with a yellow ball, changing the score from 155-85, to 80-85. I was right down on the field for that match, and the range of emotions was intense.

Yeah, unfortunatley being apart of the #8 aliiance with teams 237, and 386, i did not get to see the match, as from the first match if you watch it you see team 33 ramming into our bot, and you just see the hook twisting and bending... we had to spend the enxt 5-10 min straight taking off the hook and fixing it... it was only when i heard a huge uproar in the crowds and the 386 engineers running over yelling that we had won and we did not have to rush to finish the hook. our bot was 90* to the bar (i just watched it again and if we hadnt decapped the mobile goal, the 33/60 allaince would have won the match by 5 pts... the most exciting match i have ever participated in as HP or Driver... (link above)

[suneel112]

QF 4 match 2 on Curie. Watch it now. That was definitely a high point in our team. Also watch any 190 match (except when they touched the 2x and didn't advance).

[pakrat]

We are looking for the best videos, not the best descriptions of matches.

Thread re-focus:

PLease give any and all links you have to exceptional matches, not just descriptions. an example might be the post by Karthik.


Thanks all!!

[J Flex 188]

sorry bout that, you are right. need to include the acutal links. karthik fixed that though =). talk about heartbreakers, look at 188's final match in 2003 in Houston. We had lost the first match pretty badly, and needed a huge heap of points to win (over differential) and we along with 121 devised a great strategy, with an inital 6 stack of HP bins and another 2 stack, while we would both roar over in autonomous, knocking more bins onto our side. After that, 121 and 188 proceeded to lock in and trap 781 and 126 in the gap between the ramp and the side, and the entire match was fought that way, we just kept pushing back in forth. However, by the last 15-20 seconds it was crazy how much power we lost, and 781 broke free and headed straight towards the 6 stack. With about 1 second to go, they reached it, and it wobbled forever, but held firm. Those of us watching on webcast were left open mouthed, because we could not believe that the stack stood up. However, the results werent being posted, and it was later shown that we had received a score of 0, mainly due to a ruling that 121 had intentionally flipped the other robot. Controversy aside, the fact that the 6 stack stood up and ACTUALLY DIDNT FALL at the last second was insane. I'm told that actually being there, the stack looked even more like it was going to fall than in this video

Last Match of 188 2003 Nationals