pic: Pic: Team 294 LA Regional

[kaliken]

Thanks for the comments.

The orange bars enabled our drivers to not have to align perfectly to the ball every time. This allowed us to intake some more angles than at IE. In addition when we shot, the bars helped the ball stay centered on the shooter. So basically it worked really well!

Other changes we made were to increase the size of the shooting plate. In I.E. you can see we had a small diameter plate. In LA we had a 6in plate which dramatically increased the shooter energy transfer.

Finally the most important thing we did was invest in drive practice. Many thanks to Team 330 to providing a place for us to practice as they have a great field.

For champs again its mainly investing in drive practice and small improvements to reliability and robustness to heavy defense.

Hope to see you guys there!

Originally Posted by kevincrispie

Your robot was impressive at Los Angeles and Inland Empire, and improved a lot between regionals. You guys have a versatile robot that can play the midfield role really well.

I have a couple questions: it appears that you added the orange centering/ball positioning bar for LA as I don't see it in the IE picture. If this is indeed the case, how did this work out for you? Were there any other modifications you made to your claw? To me, it seemed to grab the ball a bit better at LA than IE so it seemed to work out pretty well. Do you plan on making any more changes for championships?

Congratulations of your win. It'll be good having you guys at champs.