[FVC]: I challenge you to post your Atlanta Vex robot pics

[sovierr]

Originally Posted by Domino

The two crappy low goals won... NO COMPETITION FROM THE MIDWEST.... fyi

I don't really understand what you mean by this. Are you trying to say that the teams coming to the chamionship from the MidWest Regional aren't good? Aren't you coming from the MidWest Regional? Didn't you say you competed there? Based on your post I know you didn't win, but I assume you won the Inspire Award. Please clarify what you mean and how your team qualified for the Championship.

Also, you say your team and 3390 will be coming "incognito". 1) What team are you from? 2) What do you mean by incognito?

[sovierr]

Since we are giving plugs (albeit to ourselves), I would like to plug another team from our regional. During finals match 1, our robot and our alliance partner both had scoring issues. We had scored enough before the problems to win the match. Between the 1st and 2nd match we took our time out, but we could not diagnose and fix the problem with either robot in time. We obviously lost the second match.

Between the 2nd and 3rd matches, our opponents used their timeout for our benefit. We were able to fix both robots, and we won the last match by 1 point! Those two teams demonstrated the essence of gracious professionalism that afternoon.

One of our opponents (Team 1902-Exploding Bacon) won the Inspire award and is attending the Championships. When you see them, please pat them on the back and thank them for spreading the true spirit of FIRST.

BTW, the other opponent was team 1369-Minotaur.

[nonother]

Originally Posted by sovierr

I don't really understand what you mean by this. Are you trying to say that the teams coming to the chamionship from the MidWest Regional aren't good? Aren't you coming from the MidWest Regional? Didn't you say you competed there? Based on your post I know you didn't win, but I assume you won the Inspire Award. Please clarify what you mean and how your team qualified for the Championship.

Also, you say your team and 3390 will be coming "incognito". 1) What team are you from? 2) What do you mean by incognito?

Well I can't answer for him/her but I know the following:

Winning Alliance: 3505 (Omaha, NE) & 3365 (Crete, NE)
Inspire Award: 3391 (Elkhorn, NE)
Team 3390 (Elkhorn, NE) was Runner-Up Alliance

So team 3390 didn't qualify for the Championship, perhaps they got one of the open slots?

The first picture is of the winning alliance, the second picture shows the Inspire Award robot pushing the Atlas Ball.

[Domino]

Originally Posted by sovierr

I don't really understand what you mean by this. Are you trying to say that the teams coming to the chamionship from the MidWest Regional aren't good? Aren't you coming from the MidWest Regional? Didn't you say you competed there? Based on your post I know you didn't win, but I assume you won the Inspire Award. Please clarify what you mean and how your team qualified for the Championship.

Also, you say your team and 3390 will be coming "incognito". 1) What team are you from? 2) What do you mean by incognito?

Let me correct myself. I think I called them crappy because we had a tough break and im bitter. There is a VERY strong low goal coming from the midwest regional and the other robot did not work at all. My team made it to the finals at the MWRegional undefeated. THe first round we won the match and the second round of the championship our robot got rammed (it snapped our main axel in two - (our axle was twisting already so that didnt add to it) Our robot was rendered useless. So we lost the second round. The third round we tried to pin the atlas ball but we were really immobile without that axle and in the last 10 seconds the atlas ball rolled to the other side.

What I mean by incognito is team 3388 and team 3390 joined another team from my school that won the inspire award. 3388 and 3390 also went to wisconsin losing in the semifinals to a team that well deserved it (they were amazing)

In a few days I will post a video and a few pictures of my robot.

I hope this clears things up sorry for any confusion =)

[sovierr]

Originally Posted by Domino

What I mean by incognito is team 3388 and team 3390 joined another team from my school that won the inspire award. 3388 and 3390 also went to wisconsin losing in the semifinals to a team that well deserved it (they were amazing)

In a few days I will post a video and a few pictures of my robot.

I hope this clears things up sorry for any confusion =)

So the robot you were talking about will not be playing in Atlanta? Or, are you talking about the robot from the team you joined?

[Domino]

Originally Posted by sovierr

So the robot you were talking about will not be playing in Atlanta? Or, are you talking about the robot from the team you joined?

The team we joined was kind of a hostile takeover (they didn't care) and we just made a new robot.

[Eragnok]

Im assuming 3391 since they are from the same school you are and are the only team going to Atanta

[nonother]

Our team (3053) modified our robot after the PA tournament; it's been done for a few weeks now but I hadn't gotten around to posting any pictures of it.

What's obscured by the arm is that the drive train is powered by 6 motors. Each motor is on a 60 tooth gear, and each wheel is on an 84 tooth gear. The robot is moderate to high speed (relative to other robots we've seen), and has quite a bit of torque. Because the front and rear wheels are linked by gearing, if one wheel gets lifted off of the ground (when driving onto the platform, or sometimes when in a war over the Atlas Ball), all of the torque gets transferred to the other wheel instead of being lost.

Pictures below:

[MrForbes]

Kevin is doing a little bit of testing, juggling balls to figure out the nuances of programming the robot to do it in autonomous mode.

[sovierr]

Originally Posted by Domino

The team we joined was kind of a hostile takeover (they didn't care) and we just made a new robot.

What are you going to do about the engineering notebook then? It will show a total transformation in the 10 members of the team.

[Domino]

Originally Posted by sovierr

What are you going to do about the engineering notebook then? It will show a total transformation in the 10 members of the team.

the notebook will probably be extremely long because it will tell the tales of three different teams and what they have learned and gone through and what they finally came to a conclusion about