pic: Undefeated in eliminations at RITR and THOR... this sums up our feelings right now.

[ThunderousPrime]

Congrats on your wins!

One thing I have noticed though from going to 2 offseason events with our beta electronics + robot (which we didn't win unfortunately ) is that the beta equipment can do some wonky things with autonomous mode. This year my team's robot had a super consistent 1 ball autonomous routine; averaging our 2 regionals and champs I would say 90% of our shots in auto were accurate. When we went to our first offseason I noticed that the robot did not drive far enough forward to make the shot. (No drive length code was changed to my knowledge.) At our second offseason there were multiple beta teams such 1114 and 340 who were missing auto shots with what I think were similar problems.

Take a look at this video of 1114 and 1511 missing auto shots in Ruckus Qual 1. I know for fact that the error in our auto is that we didn't drive far enough forward. What looks to be part of the failure of 1114's auto here is the failure drive far enough forward (a minute distance I know.) to pick up the second ball. (This post isn't to single out 1114 auto miss with us. They are a really awesome team and alliance partner; we were the beneficiary of one of their 2 ball routines at champs and I greatly appreciate the chance I had to work with them! It is merely to describes my observation that something with the change to the beta electronics messed with the drive lengths in auto.)

Another wonky thing that happened to us at our first offseason was after teleoperated ended we would spin in circles because one side of our drive train was still powered. This also happened to another non beta team, 250, so I assume it is some kind of FMS error.