Is Balancing 2 Goals That Difficult????

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Posted by PAUL GIANNOSA at 03/12/2001 9:52 PM EST


Engineer on team #27, TEAM RUSH, from OSMTECH and TEXTRON AUTOMOTIVE CO..


In Reply to: Is Balancing 2 Goals That Difficult????
Posted by Thomas Grupp on 03/12/2001 3:51 PM EST:



: I have read alot of these posting and have seen 2 regionals broadcasted. Maybe my opinion will change once we, Team 378 The Circuit Stompers!!, attend the Great lakes regional.

: But during our practice time we had with our robot "Louie The Low Rider", Yes we can limbo, we grabed both goals and balanced on the ramp in 40 seconds. That means there would be 1 min and 20 sec left over. If the other 3 robots just got in the end zone your looking at a minimum of 300 points.

: Correct me if Im wrong but at the Virginia regional I did not see two goals balanced at all. From the scores from the western michigan regional it seems that robots there were capable of doing the dual balance.

: I would like to hear from anybody and everbody about this. I would just like to know if what I saw our robot do at practice is repeatable, on a consistance basis? Or am I living in a dream world?
Our driver for Team Rush balanced 2 goals (one full one m t and with one big ball on top) about 95% of the time at the New England regionals. We did this consistantly enough to qualify as the #2 seed at the regionals. Unfortunatly Gale force winds blew away our chances for a victory in the finals. Consistancy is the name of the game. Pick a job and do it well. For the Great lakes regional we have changed our strategy and robot to fit the strategy a little. We obviously need to score more than 360 points(our best of the UTC weekend) considering #71 has rasied the anty a little. PMGRACER