pic: Don't do this...

[Jimmy Cao]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brim

Something I noticed this weekend is that 15 seconds often isn't enough for the average driver to climb up a narrow ramp. Most teams that tried to climb at the last second either fell off or only made it part-way up and got the 15. It seems that endzone defense was more effective than I thought... Did anyone else notice this? Or was it unique to the SoCal regional?

Well, at GLR, it was illegal to defend against a robot that did not have a tube... so ramp bots wernt defended against and the other bots wern't on their way back to get on the ramps either...

[Sean Marks]

Wow thats a tough ending.

[Josh Fox]

I actually got to see this take place. We were sitting about three rows down and maybe 6-7 seats over based on the angle. I only remember seeing one actually successful double lift in the finals

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by FoXy92

I actually got to see this take place. We were sitting about three rows down and maybe 6-7 seats over based on the angle. I only remember seeing one actually successful double lift in the finals

You must have missed Final matches 2 and 3. Although those lifts were at the other end of the field.

[BHOP]

Yeah I was down on the field with Gary volunteering...almost all the lifts after this mishap were successful and it ultimately led the alliance to a win. In the finals 1 the pneumatics on board 503 failed not allowing any gripping or ramp deployment so they lost. But in the last two finals matchs one robot ramped in finals2 and both ramped in finals3. Finals 3 was about the only time I saw both alliance robots up during the whole tourny.

[win_j]

[Pneumatic Group Leader] states nicely that it was electrical (to the compressor) that failed, not the pneumatic system.