Pittsburgh reflections...

[Cody Carey]

Now that Pittsburgh is over (Congrats to the winning alliance!), I'd like to see what all of us thought. What bots did best? What type of bots seemed to be most desirable as an alliance partner? Who was the best scorer? Who was the best ramp? Who was the best Hybrid? Did hybrids do better than scorers or ramps at either of those specialized tasks, or was a specialized robot definately the way to go? How was the venue food? How'd you feel about the rookie advantage?


Whatever you want to say... Here's the place to say it!

[Tom Saxton]

The results page shows that team 1640 had to play in back-to-back matches Friday morning. Is that right?

[BRosser314]

Can someone post the elimination bracket?

[UsmanB]

You mean this: http://www2.usfirst.org/2007comp/eve...chresults.html ?

[Cody Carey]

Here they are.

[NS2591]

It was Ok. The food sucked. The Floor around the Pit sucked!! Alot of people probably saw me taping down the floor on Friday morning. 306...Sorry for using up all of your duct tape

[Cody Carey]

No problem It was better used keeping people from tripping than sitting in our toolbox.

[gmiller_1249]

I think 1038 was the best scoring 'bot. There were only a few who could consistently score anywhere but the bottom row. They could also score in autonomous.

378 had the best ramp or lifting design. They were in 30th place after the qualifications because of some real fluke events. They lost two matches because a string from one bot was touching the ground, and the other a drive chain from a 'bot was touching the ground. They lifted us through the quarters and the semis. The two matches of the six we didn't get 60 were both our fault. Once was a slipping transmission and the other we were on our back like a turtle in the sun.

1629 and 128 also had very consistent designs. They finished the qualifications 21st and 26th respectfully. Da Bears also had a great ramp design they rode to the championship.

We got up all of the ramps we played with. The one that gave us the most difficulty was CIA's. Their angle up the ramp was the steepest and we missed it once.

If you look at the rankings at the end of the qualifications for Pittsburgh, the strong defensive 'bots and rookies held most of the top spots.

Greg
Mentor
Team 1249
The RoboRats

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by NS2591

It was Ok. The food sucked. The Floor around the Pit sucked!! Alot of people probably saw me taping down the floor on Friday morning. 306...Sorry for using up all of your duct tape

I want to thank you (and anyone else who did that) many times over...the floor was quite rough, and pulling our big, hefty cart around every match was tough, it got caught frequently. We had a few twisted ankles, but nothing serious.

Pittsburgh was fun, although it would have been more fun for us personally if we'd had a bit more variety in alliance partners. While we didn't play the same teams again and again the way it was the first week, it was still a bit annoying by Saturday morning.

[Bemis]

375 struck me as the best score bot. They got 7 in a row twice, and would have had 8 the second time if not for a problem in autonomous and some good defence on the other alliance. Other that them, 1038 was great.

[Maggie27]

My team didn't do so hot. Even though we placed 6th overall. It is definately better than last year when we were in dead last. Our alliance was pretty strong too, but not strong enough. My team, (1708), just played defense. We did very well at it, but I think it would've been so much better if they just TRIED or attempted to use what we had, which was the suction, which eventually turned into a hook...ARGHH!! Don't think we've been beaten yet though!! I'll be engineering this robot next year, and it'll be soo much better, believe me!! =]

[Maggie27]

1038 was my favorite, by far!!

[Liz Smith]

Did anyone else see 48's flying flip-over crash in practice matches? I was standing right by that corner of the field, but I thought it was one of the best/worst robot-accidents I've ever see. I'm glad nothing was damaged too much though!

Good robots? I did like 1038 a lot. I thought 2010 was an awesome rookie bot. That team also had great strategy... I was watching the human player switching between spoilers and ringers deciding which ine would benefit their alliance more.

306 had an impressive looking ramp too. So many great robots!

Pittsburgh was so much fun, I'm already looking forward to next year.

[Maggie27]

I saw it flip, it was a great one. Hahaha =P

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Liz Smith

Did anyone else see 48's flying flip-over crash in practice matches? I was standing right by that corner of the field, but I thought it was one of the best/worst robot-accidents I've ever see. I'm glad nothing was damaged too much though!

I certainly saw it! 1038 recorded it and will post video later, I believe. Nothing was damaged at all - just a flag holder and a battery terminal connection that needed popped back into place.