week 1 questions

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

For the the week 1 people, how has it been?

-Did the ir board work or did a lot of robots do nothing?
-What seemed to be the most dominating robot? (arms, lifts, launchers, basebots, other...)?
-Were there a lot of penalities (especiallythe 80 inch rule, and impeding)?
-High scores or low scores?

I was at the midwest regional, and overall I was impressed, now to your questions:
1. From the stands its hard to tell if they used the IR or not, but most teams moved
2. SHOOTERS, SHOOTERS, SHOOTERS, need I say more?
3. I was disappointed with the low number of penaltys called outside of traveling clockwise. Clockwise was called alot, dont go anywhere the line, you will get called for it. I never saw an impeding call though, where I thought there should have been some. I also saw a situation where red alliance hurdles, then blue alliance knocks the ball back into the red homezone. The red robot went around the field picked up that same ball, hurdled it, and was given points for the hurdle! THat was not a legal hurdle because the ball must cross the opponents finish line before it can score again. I realize it may be hard to track, but then get some more refs, and give each a specific job.
4. The scores were pretty high. just a guess, but I think the average was 50+. The highest score I saw was either 124 or around 142. Cant remember which, but it was 1114 and 1024 against 1675 and 1038(3rd teams on both alliance, I'm sorry I cant remember your #s, its been a long day) in the quarter finals. 1675 had to back out of the match, and another robot on that alliance tipped at the beginnning.

EDIT: I'm not sure, but I dont think the 80in is a penalty. I thought is was something that they would check during inspection. Could some please correct me if I'm wrong?
Joey