2009 Peachtree Regional

[rfolea]

Originally Posted by PlatyPi Gunner

.. it confused me to why 1746 didn't call a timeout when their bot was on the fritz

We didn't know we had a problem until it was too late....

For the record, the actual sequence of events was:

1. Broke a chain. Still not sure why.
One group thinks we simply lost a master link
The other group thinks our chains had a lot of slack
in them and a hit at just the right time got one cocked
wrong on a sprocket. That coupled with the fact that
it was really crappy chain -> bye-bye.

2. Threw a chain - The previous mishap really messed things
up so now the chain was loose enough to come off by itself
Quickly added a chain tensioner to take up slack

3. Loose wire. Probably knocked loose during previous repairs.
Broke free right at the start of the match. Ugh.

It's hard to overcome 3 catastrophic failures in a row ...

While we were "Undefeated" through the quals, we really can't
take credit for it. We had an unbelievable amount of good
fortune. Geez .. the first match our guys forgot to plug
the bridge ethernet cable in, but because they had the Team light
wired wrong, no one could tell ... Special thanks to 1533 and 1304
for winning that one - boy was that embarrassing!

The kids were crushed for loosing the finals for such crazy reasons,
not only for us, but also for 1771 who REALLY deserved to be there ...

We also want to thank 547 - they were awesome - did everything
we asked them to do and were very gracious about the whole thing.
If you ever need a partner, check these guys out - they are great!

We learned a lot at Peachtree, rest assured those lessons will be
addressed for Palmetto. We can't wait!

See you in a couple days!

[Andrew Y.]

Originally Posted by rfolea

We didn't know we had a problem until it was too late....

For the record, the actual sequence of events was:

1. Broke a chain. Still not sure why.
One group thinks we simply lost a master link
The other group thinks our chains had a lot of slack
in them and a hit at just the right time got one cocked
wrong on a sprocket. That coupled with the fact that
it was really crappy chain -> bye-bye.

2. Threw a chain - The previous mishap really messed things
up so now the chain was loose enough to come off by itself
Quickly added a chain tensioner to take up slack

3. Loose wire. Probably knocked loose during previous repairs.
Broke free right at the start of the match. Ugh.

It's hard to overcome 3 catastrophic failures in a row ...

While we were "Undefeated" through the quals, we really can't
take credit for it. We had an unbelievable amount of good
fortune. Geez .. the first match our guys forgot to plug
the bridge ethernet cable in, but because they had the Team light
wired wrong, no one could tell ... Special thanks to 1533 and 1304
for winning that one - boy was that embarrassing!

The kids were crushed for loosing the finals for such crazy reasons,
not only for us, but also for 1771 who REALLY deserved to be there ...

We also want to thank 547 - they were awesome - did everything
we asked them to do and were very gracious about the whole thing.
If you ever need a partner, check these guys out - they are great!

We learned a lot at Peachtree, rest assured those lessons will be
addressed for Palmetto. We can't wait!

See you in a couple days!

thats not too bad...few years ago santosh and i went on the field and was scratching our heads on why nothing worked...we forgot to reinstall the robot controller....now THATS EMBARRASSING

but...
fortunately for us we had all our problems during the qualifiers.

[PlatyPi Gunner]

we were undefeated the first day, but our whole 2nd day of qualifiers was a big disaster, first off our wiring on our compressor was loose, so we could pick up the moon rocks, but not shoot them. 2nd match, we apparently had a driver's station problem so we didn't work then. third match 1746, 1319 and co. just wrecked us. then the second elimination round we didn't work again, but we got a different thingamajig, which seemed to work. after that we didn't have any problems until one of our bands snapped in the finals.

ps. chains are the devil

[Doc Wu]

Does anyone know why the standings page on the usfirst.org page for the Peachtree Regional is empty? Does anyone have this information?

The other pages - match results, awards, etc. - are there. Only that is missing.

I want to parse this data for statistical use. This is the only page I'm missing.

[Jimmy K]

Originally Posted by PlatyPi Gunner

2nd match, we apparently had a driver's station problem so we didn't work then. third match 1746, 1319 and co. just wrecked us.

Actually, you have those switched. I remember as our alliance reaped the benefits of the malfunction, scored a supercell on ourselves, and still got the <G14> (but only for doubling not tripling). (http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/team/2655)

Originally Posted by Doc Wu

Does anyone know why the standings page on the usfirst.org page for the Peachtree Regional is empty? Does anyone have this information?

The Blue Alliance has all of the match scores. If you click on a team, you can see their overall record as well as their record at Peachtree. This is really inefficient, but it is a method of retrieving those stats if you really want them.