Mayhem in Merrimack, Final Thoughts

[Steve Howland]

Originally Posted by Ryan Foley

Apparently, they all decided to switch around. To my understanding, all the A robots were started on the correct side, yet their control systems were on the other side, so we would think the bots were correctly alligned; the B bots were switched in the same way. So you can imagine our confused state of mind (refs, Andy, etc) when the robots started scoring for the wrong alliance.

Close - that probably would have worked better. What we did was set up each robot and control station correctly then as soon as the match started went to the other side and picked up tetras from the other team's autoloader or human and capped for the other team. The other way would have worked better because as it went, whenever the opposing team was human-loading (on our side), we lost all power to our robot (which explains the two mysterious power losses that did occur and I had no idea why). So pretty much every robot should have been disabled but the match didn't count for anything so we decided to have a bit of fun.