What did you learn in todays scrimmages?

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

OK.... Who want to share what they learned scrimmaging today. I watched the UTC web cast, Thanks Shelton, and there seemed to be a lot of penalties. What was the biggest thing that triggered the penalties?

Any other observations?

I'll talk about the penalties that were recieved.

In the first round of the finals, the 38-177-88 aliance received a 30 point pentalty for interfering with a loading robot. Combined with a penalty recieved by the other alliance for backing out of the human loading zone before their human player was back on the pad (they were wired wrong), this first game was decided 1-0. It just shows how painful penalties are.

We also recieved a penalty in an earlier match for not being on the loading zone before we grabbed a tetra from the automated loading station, but that was in a practice round. Also in practice, we fell out of bounds twice, which is not good either.

The main thing I think I learned today is how important defence is. Also, lighting was not what we had hoped it would be, and we have to make adjustments to how we set up the camera for these conditions. Oh yea: don't leave the camera somewhere it is likely to get fallen on. We were about two inches from crushing our CMUcam into oblivion.