[FTC]: FTC Championships Results

[Rick TYler]

Did I see the screen right -- there were no quarterfinals? Did they only select four alliances for eliminations in each division??? Were they 2-robot or 3-robot alliances?

I guess they were trying to move the event along.

[Monty Python]

What were the alliances?

I just caught the announcing of the winners and what happened? Who beat Power Surge? Who were those teams who won it/what did their robot look like? I guess all I can say at this point is wow! I'm sorry I missed it.

[The_Wizard]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Did I see the screen right -- there were no quarterfinals? Did they only select four alliances for eliminations in each division??? Were they 2-robot or 3-robot alliances?

I guess they were trying to move the event along.

I know i cannot be much help... but what i saw was when they were explaining the alliance selection process... the first division had 4 alliances getting selected (i think). What i believe happened was that each devision had 2 semi finals, then a final and the winners of each moved on to a grand final. I would love to hear the results though because I didn't see anything after that.

[595294001]

The winning Alliance was:

679 Roboraiders,
2820 Longhorns (us YAY),
and 92 Jr. bomb squad

The same alliance that beat Power Surge .

[ttldomination]

Nice to see 679 come out on top. Good job to everyone.

[The_Wizard]

Originally Posted by 595294001

The winning Alliance was:

679 Roboraiders,
2820 Longhorns (us YAY),
and 92 Jr. bomb squad

The same alliance that beat Power Surge .

what of the other awards?

[RoboMom]

Originally Posted by The_Wizard

what of the other awards?

http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...CMP_Awards.pdf

[Rick TYler]

Thanks! Do we know if FIRST is ever going to post the complete match results and final qualifying standings?

It would be nice if FIRST would include the real-time match updates that they give the FRC fields.

[595294001]

I forgot to say this in my last post,


I have to say a big thanks to 679, the captain, they were a great team

1) They blocked Power Surge for a minute, which is insane

2) This is even better, they were gracious enough to step off in the last two finals matches, because their auto was not working. Even though, they were captain. That takes a lot of courage.

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by 595294001

I forgot to say this in my last post,


I have to say a big thanks to 679, the captain, they were a great team

1) They blocked Power Surge for a minute, which is insane

2) This is even better, they were gracious enough to step off in the last two finals matches, because their auto was not working. Even though, they were captain. That takes a lot of courage.

I have to say that this alliance showed BRILLIANT tactics against an alliance with (arguably) superior robots. Amazing performance -- congratulations.

[ttldomination]

Would it be possible to get some pictures of robots or like..match videos?

Of course I've seen 679, but I'm really interested in the other two robots.

[595294001]

Here are some photos, I'll add the appropriately tagged ones after their approved.

2820 ....................... 92 ............. Both ........The whole Alliance




Hope you like them, I might get some video later.

[Abra Cadabra IV]

Inspire went to Team 32, Einstein's Daughters. They really, truly deserved it - I've never seen an FTC team go that above and beyond with outreach.

[Nitro-Guy]

Just got back from Atlanta... congratulations to the teams on the winning alliance! They played very well, and it was ironic that a pretty good imitation of our robot (2820 Longhorns) would end up beating us.

Power Surge had a great time competing, although we had a dissapointing end. We went undefeated in qualifying matches, despite dropping and breaking our primary robot laptop, having a battery charger break on us and a 12V battery burn up, and other strange problems that we didn't have all season. We were the #2 seeded alliance just before match 5/6, because #1 Unlimited had more ranking points than us and was also undefeated. So in match 5, we pulled one of our 2 puck-rack autonomous modes (which we've actually had since before the NJ regional, but have kept secret for strategy purposes ), so that in tele-op we could score for the other team and catch up on ranking points. We ended up winning that match 222 - 208, which was the highest individual and combined score at the World Championships. We ended up being the #1 seeded alliance going into elimination rounds, and won the semi-finals 2-0. However, during the last match of the semifinals, we somehow lost all communication with our robot, and it burned out both drive motors when it backed into a field wall and got stuck. We were able to replace both motors before our next match, however.

In the finals, everything went wrong. In the first match, a disconnected rotation sensor caused our autonomous mode to completely fail, and then we had a very strange problem that we still haven't been able to figure out. Even though the robot had full power in Autonomous mode, in tele-op mode the drive motors slowed to a snail's pace, even though we were using the same program and joysticks that had worked fine all day. This made it very easy for our opponents to block us, since we had enough trouble moving around without interference. Although we were still able to score some pucks, we lost the match by about 20 points. In the second match we had the same problem, except even worse. Our robot could only move at about 40-50% of its usual power, enabling our two opponents, working together, to keep us from scoring anything. Apparently our alliance partner lost communication with their robot, and so was not able to score either.

Ah well... that's the way it goes. We did the best we could, but some problems are just out of your control. It was a great and exciting competition, nonetheless. We had two awesome alliance partners for the elimination rounds, 121 Rhode Rage and 110 MFS Foxes, who were very gracious when our alliance was defeated because of our problems.

-Jonathan

[ptan]

Originally Posted by Nitro-Guy

So in match 5, we pulled one of our 2 puck-rack autonomous modes (which we've actually had since before the NJ regional, but have kept secret for strategy purposes ), so that in tele-op we could score for the other team and catch up on ranking points. We ended up winning that match 222 - 208, which was the highest individual and combined score at the World Championships.

Yes, we did notice your 2 puck-rack auto being pulled out of the hat on that match. We thought we had you guys on the match since we also ran our secret 2 puck-rack auto on that match to keep it close with you guys! Too bad our alliance partner couldn't score their one rack on auto on that match.

Good job, and we hope to meet you again on the field next year!

- Polar Bear Robotics, Team 27