Power Players at the Regionals

[Squeaky]

Most people overlooked 122 at the VCU regional. My team, Team 401, #3 seeded alliance captain was able to select them during the second round of selections. 122 doesn't have an auto mode and can't pick tetras up off of the ground, but they consistently stacked tetras every round. They also have excellent drivers and a drive train that no one noticed.

My team, team 401, has an automode that works every time in which we stack a tetra on a back corner goal, knocking down the hanging tetra. We also have a turret design which allows us to pick up tetras and stack them on goals when our robot isn't perfectly aligned. A previous post said we drop tetras and flip easily, but I was shocked by this post. We dropped a couple throughout the competition, but we're able to right our mistakes in a matter of seconds. We flipped once, but the ref's disabled 539's robot so they must've seen some malicious intent. We don't flip easily, and we are able to play great defense as shown in the one round where our chain fell off our arm's sprocket. We drive with 2 4 inch treaded wheels at a possible 14 fps. We pushed one robot sideways away from a goal to prevent them from ruining our middle row. I can't wait till national's to see how we compare with robots from around the nation.

I was also surprised by 1610's automode in which they came the closest to picking up a green tetra and stacking on the center goal. I never expected a rookie team to come that close.

Thanks to teams 435 and 122 for helping us win the VCU Regional... never could have done it without you guys.