Running Out of Tetras

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Originally Posted by DCA Fan

Oops sorry, didn't mean to confuse people...I meant to say we had the 9 per loader and the 4 in case one breaks, those wouldn't get introduced during the match

In the last semifinal match, i counted 19 tetras capped by our alliance. Subtract 5 from our robot, which used human loader, 14 tetras were picked up by 245 and 217 from the auto loader. Plus, i think 245 dropped two. So there was suppose to be two left.

I talked earlier to one of 245's team member about how they could have added more motors to their arm. We would then probably have ran out of tetras. I saw several robots that used the auto loader and could have capped over 9 a match using our alliances strategy. In the future, First needs less rules and more physicals restraints such as a finite number of tetras and a enclosed arena to protect officials, operators and teams (less safety penalties for refs to worry about).

Thanks 245 and 217 for being such great partners. You guys made our wildest dreams come true. Thanks to all FIRST officials for running a very complex event. Congratulations to 330, 67, and 503, it was a honor to have three well fought matches with you guys.