2005 Lonestar Regional Awards, Congratulations all teams!

[GB330033]

Note 1: In Match QF4.1 Team 1255 was assessed a 10 point penalty for excessive ramming to Team 57 which lead to Team 57 tipping over.

Personally, I wouldn't have called it excessive, but that's just me. They were trying to cap the center, and we decided to take advantage of the casters on their front and try to spin them. They just so happened to fall over...

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In any case, congrats to 118. I'm disappointed that we never got to play a proper match against you (We lost battery power in the one that was scheduled) because it would have been fun. We wanted to see if we could trap you and your drive system with our strength, but never got the chance. Nevertheless, congratulations, and good luck at nationals.

Edit: Also, tons of thanks to team 1083 and 647 for allowing us the chance to compete with yall. Might not have made it all the way, but hey, semifinals aren't too bad!

Arms are overrated!

[FusionDude364]

Originally Posted by GB330033

Personally, I wouldn't have called it excessive, but that's just me. They were trying to cap the center, and we decided to take advantage of the casters on their front and try to spin them. They just so happened to fall over...

Personally, I would call it excessive because when they fell over it broke their arm, leaving us as the only effective capper on our alliance. 660 was able to deliver a few (1 or 2) tetras after 57 broke, but it was a definate blow to our alliance.

[Andrew Rudolph]

Thanks to 364 and 1255 We had a great time with you guys, I hope to see you next year at Houston...maybe?

[Barry Bonzack]

Congrats to all teams that attended. Thanks to team 1083 for having me along for the ride and treating me like one of the team. It was an awesome regional and I had a great time in Houston.

[Dan Richardson]

Personally, I would call it excessive because when they fell over it broke their arm, leaving us as the only effective capper on our alliance. 660 was able to deliver a few (1 or 2) tetras after 57 broke, but it was a definate blow to our alliance.

I wouldn't have called it excessive because all they did was push, not ram or anything of the sorts. Although I might be a bit biased, 1255 just tried to spin 57 away from the goal because of their casters upfront and they did fall over, they did not push high, its just the way things go.

We are sorry they broke, this never was our intention we did not mean for them to tip. But as far as being disabled in the second matchif I remember correctly 57 drove straight into a goal during the autonomous mode, and was stuck there for the rest of the match. We broke once and had a dead battery the second match ( an accidental flip flop ) in semi-finals so I can understand your pain.

They were both hard matches that could have gone either way I would like to personally thank 364, 57, and 660 for the great matches. And of course thanks to our alliance partners 647 and 1255 for being such great allies.

Great Regional

Dan

[bhweezer]

Congratulations to all of the teams that went to Lone Star, especially 118. You guys definitely had one of the most original robots I have seen and it was quite an experience competing with and against you. Overall Lone Star was great! The only thing that stuck out to me was it seemed as if the judges didn't call many of the penalties regarding the loading zones. I saw quite a few teams getting bumped around while getting tetras in the loading zones and were never penalized.

One more thanks to 660 and 57 for an awesome alliance!

[Argoth]

Originally Posted by bhweezer

Congratulations to all of the teams that went to Lone Star, especially 118. You guys definitely had one of the most original robots I have seen and it was quite an experience competing with and against you. Overall Lone Star was great! The only thing that stuck out to me was it seemed as if the judges didn't call many of the penalties regarding the loading zones. I saw quite a few teams getting bumped around while getting tetras in the loading zones and were never penalized.

One more thanks to 660 and 57 for an awesome alliance!

There should have actually been fourty points deducted from purple haze alliance in our first semi-final against them because they repeatedly rammed our bot four times when it was in the human player loading zone. The refs said it was because our human player didn't run to the robot, but with our design that would have been completly unsafe and not in accordance with the spirit of First. But, oh well. I don't think our right track could have lasted another match. The motor gave me burns on my hand because the belt that was inside the robot was far to tight and was overloading the motor. Great game ya'll though and sorry to team 57, we truly did not wish you to fall. Thanks to all our alliance members and see ya'll next year!

[Jverdon]

Originally Posted by Stud Man Dan

We are sorry they broke, this never was our intention we did not mean for them to tip. But as far as being disabled in the second matchif I remember correctly 57 drove straight into a goal during the autonomous mode, and was stuck there for the rest of the match.

They were not stuck and got out and were able to try to play defense. Unfortunitly it was not enough and we were not able to win the match with only one capper.

On the note of penalties there were not many called I think it was 118 that knocked over some tetras off the loading zone and did not get the penalty called.

Thanks to all the teams at Lone Star and we hope to see you in Atlanta.

[MasonMM]

118 did knock some tetras off the auto loader, but we were always touching the HDPE triangle making it legal to interact with the tetras on the auto loader... except for one case when a tetra we were holding bumped into another tetra that was on the auto loader while we were trying to get into a capping position, which meant we were not touching the HDPE, and the tetra we were holding was considered part of our robot, so we got the 10 point penalty that we deserved. That was our first and only penalty this season. A rule clarification our drivers had to learn the hard way.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Hey all,

So I was the coach for 57, and I'd like to clear a few things up. I did feel that 1255's defense was a bit rough at times, but they were called for it, so that's been and done. To any interested, the fall actually broke a welded seam on our tower. Luckily, we've gotten it rewelded and that system will still be 100% for the Championships.

The second round, there was a miscommunication on the team and our automode was set to straight forward instead of nothing. I don't believe we managed to get out of the goal, as we got high-centered on the base of our tower.

Finally, our arm was giving us problems before that. We'd managed to break a retaining plate earlier in the regional, and that was giving us some problems. The fall exacerbated the problems and our globe motor gave out to boot, so we ended up planning on being an all defensive bot in the last match.

Thanks to 364 and 660 for allying with us. Y'all were great and we're sorry to let ya down. We'll be looking for ya at Champs and next year's Lone Star.

[GB330033]

Yeah, we were rough, and we know it. Heck, it's all we could do. However, we had no intention of breaking yalls arm, or even tipping yall, we just wanted to keep you from capping the center. It was 1083 that let us in on the fact that yall had casters, which meant yall could spin. That's what we were trying to do, we're sorry it ended the way it did. You guys and 364 carried us to a win in our first qualifying match, so we definately wished no ill will. Good luck in the championship!