The best Final match yet? (SBPLI)

[Spindash54]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I was standing behind our alliance with some of the 1468 team members when one of your alliance robots started to spit parts of their robot into one of the corner goals along with the balls.

The rapid turnaround of that overlong finals matchup had us all working on cobbled together patches to our robots to get them back on the field. Our alliance partner 870 just cut their shooter out of their robot entirely and went back on the field.

I though Mrs. Temps (1468) was going to have a breakdown from the intense excitement of coaching her team in those finals. She is an amazing woman to have carried the weight and responsibility of her team as the lone teacher and have brought them to the finals in three short years.


You might be thinking of Uniondale HS, team 1537. They used a basketball net for their top-loader feed to a shooter into the low goals that worked very well.

Overall, I personally was impressed by the number of teams, such as, 527, 564, 271, 287, 533, and others successfully using the camera to target the high goal. Autonomous came a long way this year.

Yes, it was 1537. We were their next-door neighbors in the pits and they helped us with a few tools when we couldn't find ours. Their basketball net idea was ingenious, but only having one vetical ball pass through at a time ended in a clog and other balls bouncing out of their hopper.

We were very surprised when 870 cut their shooter, I believed it to be the beginning of the end for your alliances. And with 329's wheel coming apart, it was very tough getting everything better inbetween matches. That's why we don't like using the wheelchair wheels. They can't stand that much stress, which caused it to snap at the hub. When everything was over later, I saw the rear tread tire was starting to come apart on 353.

Temps was definatley going bezerk with everything happening. Running over to our partners after being selected was exciting enough to begin with, but 5 rounds of insanity added with damages after every match (our ball collector structure always got bent inwards) was unbelieveably incredible.