First Week Regionals *Merged*

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I've keep reading contradictory reports like this. Does it mean that they blindly pretended that the vision tetra was in a particular spot and just got lucky?

I saw some of the VCU webcast. Autonomous mode was, to put it mildly, boring. In the matches I watched, I never saw any robots come close to picking up a vision tetra.

More likely, they capped the tetra they started out with.

A couple of teams could do this at the Fingerlakes regional. 1126 [edit] and 1559 (awesome for a rookie)[/edit] capped a side goal, making the hanging tetra fall, giving them a total of 4 points and goal ownership. Team 217 could cap the home-center goal (the middle one in their endzone).
Team 494 (who we were allied with), in my opinion, had the second-coolest autonomous in the regional. They started out with a tetra, used it to knock off the hanging tetra, and then put the arm in position to be ready to cap the home-center goal. The huge advantage of this was that the 191-494-639 alliance had the home row in about the first 5 seconds of the match (191 knocked off the other hanging tetra).

The coolest autonomous was of course 237's, which came oh so close to capping a vision tetra.