Is Balancing 2 Goals That Difficult????

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Posted by Chris Hibner at 03/13/2001 1:43 PM EST


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.


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



For our team, balancing the goals isn't really difficult. We've only dumped the goals once (in 20 attempts between practice and matches) and we do it very fast. However, we found it more difficult to get the OPPORTUNITY to balance.

Let me explain that a little. During the West Michigan Regional, we had 9 matches and we were the designated goal balancer in 8 of those 9 matches (we co-balanced with another team in the other match). Out of those 8 matches, we got only 3 opportunities to balance the goals. In the other 5 matches, a robot flipped over while crossing the bridge, either dislodging the bridge from the pivot or blocking the bridge altogether.

In the future, we'll probably be a little more proactive about being sure that a robot can successfully cross the bridge. I think we took it for granted that there would be very little issue doing this task.