2006 NASA/VCU Regional!

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Originally Posted by Stephen P

It was my team 1093. Our trap door was malfunctioning and didn't come back up after we dumped balls, so as we were emptying into the corner goal the door passed through the goal about 6 or so inches. That is apparently enough to be "dangerous" and also trip the scoring system, so we were DQ'd.

I was working beside that goal - the door to dump the balls was down and most of it passed into the goal. If anything goes more than 1-2 inches into the goal you risk the chance of being DQed because then it begins to interfere with the scoring system.

Originally Posted by dubious elise

The announcer mentioned that they were having problems with the scoring systems. After resetting one of the qualifying matches 3 times, there was a break to recalibrate the scoring system which took about 30 minutes. As far as I know, there were no other errors for the rest of the day.

The 30 minute break was to reset the field software to the previous version that was being used yesterday. FTA Mike recalibrated the scoring system on the blue side today but that didn't take any more than 5 minutes.

Originally Posted by SizzelChest330

Its been brought to my attention that every robot that tries to help another robot up the ramp, gets them up but tips themselves. And some of the robots with casters are losing control going caster side first any thoughts?

Some bots are able to get up the ramo easily, and some are able to push others up the ramp, but there are many more that tip than can get up easily. 345 and 122 were having problems getting on the ramp (as well as many others) because they were running over balls at the foot of the ramp and throwing themselves off balance.