Favorite moments from Recycle Rush

[Jared Russell]

F3 from Chezy Champs was the most exciting match I watched this season.

[themccannman]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

F3 from Chezy Champs was the most exciting match I watched this season.

Going to second this one.

[mastachyra]

Implying that there were no great moments from Recycle Rush is ridiculous. You must not be a fan of FIRST. Here is my favorite, but their were many to choose from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=67&v=bwuYfa8TS60

F2 on Einstein. The can grab battle between 118 and 987 at the start was the single best thing I saw all year. At least 10,000 people gasped at the same time. It was my first time at the world championships, and it was amazing.

[logank013]

This is by far my most memorable match of 2015. It is my favorite for some reasons and my least favorite for other reasons. It it QF8 of the Indiana DCMPS. In this match, our alliance had 2 full stacks on the inside of a scoring platform. on the outside of those 2 stacks, there was an uncapped half stack. with about 15-20 seconds left in the match, 292 went to cap that stack. In the process of putting the can down on the stack, they over corrected their misalignment with the stack and in the process, they knocked down 2 full stacks worth 84 points. The reason this is one of my favorite matches of the year is because at the time, all the drive teams had a sense of panic and within 2 or 3 seconds came to their senses. 292 put the can on top of the uncapped 3 stack and 234 and 1024 tried hard to bulldoze as many totes as possible onto the scoring platform. The last second effort by all three teams is probably why our alliance moved on to the next round and win the whole event. The link can be found below:

http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2015incmp_qf1m8

The alliance scored 106 points. We needed 92 points to move on to the next round. The last second efforts were definitely what kept us in the eliminations.

[Clem1640]

For me, it was getting to Archimedes Finals as alliance captain. Alas, no visit to Einstein this year.

Prior to this year, we had been alliance captain during official FRC events exactly twice (in ten years). This year, we were alliance captain in 3 of our 4 events.

[GeeTwo]

A couple of playoff favorite moments:

At Bayou, when Robin threw a noodle over the defensive net:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/at...5&d=1427283531

The falling stack during Carson QF4 - I was yelling my head off not to put that stack down on top of a noodle, but I was way up in the nosebleed section babysitting a Grouch costume.

Another one, along a personal/team line :
Being asked into alliance by 3937 and 3039: the first time our season didn't end before lunch on Saturday.

Life was rather surreal between making Bayou playoffs and winning Bayou. The next couple of hours, when we were trying to figure out how to get the robot in a bag that could fit in a crate heading to St. Louis was personally the most stressful (and therefore favorite from a masochistic standpoint) moment. We managed to get the robot minimally disassembled and temporarily framed up so as to fit in a crate in far too short a time. And THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to our traditional cross-town football rivals, Team Combustion 1912, for loaning us a bag and a tag!

[CadetGizmo]

Originally Posted by mastachyra

Implying that there were no great moments from Recycle Rush is ridiculous. You must not be a fan of FIRST. Here is my favorite, but their were many to choose from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=67&v=bwuYfa8TS60

F2 on Einstein. The can grab battle between 118 and 987 at the start was the single best thing I saw all year. At least 10,000 people gasped at the same time. It was my first time at the world championships, and it was amazing.

What was the final score of that match?? Can't find it anywhere.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by CadetGizmo

What was the final score of that match?? Can't find it anywhere.

203 (Red) - 246 (Blue)

[tr6scott]

https://youtu.be/Ai4AiWz7680

Waterford finals 2,

Our tape measure can retrieval. When just the ability to retrieve a can, was the thing, not the speed. The mechanism was not working or programmed when we walked in on Thursday, but by alliance selection it did, and was flawless.

The tipping point of being HOT's first pick.

We left the can in the only orientation they could not pick up... upside down, they had to knock it over to pick it up. We doing the, build your stack on top of a tote at the feeder station..

Ramps would be all the rage next week.

Match ends with our First blue banner of the year, soon followed by two more, ranked 3rd in the state of Michigan, 3rd alliance captain on Tesla, Finalist on Tesla, pushing the end of the season to 3 matches.

A year where we continually out kicked the coverage, and it started here...

(Ready to do it again)

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I would like to share the afternoon of Saturday, October 17, 2015. It hasn't happened yet, but that's going to be the last time I expect to see Recycle Rush played.

Mine won't be until November...

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by marshall

Mine won't be until November...

:headlock:

Mine will be November 7th when the first match of the 2015 Rumble in the Roads kicks off. I very much enjoy running this event along side Nate Laverdure and Kyle Johnson and providing an exciting off-season event for the teams of Hampton Roads.

[Jack S.]

Saturday at the Utah Regional. Going in the morning we were seeded first but we knew that our elims alliance would need step cans to win. Standard cheesecake situation, other than the fact that we hadn't brought a pre-made mechanism to quickly attach to our third bit after alliance selections. Thankfully, we had spent some time hanging out with ATA in the hotel the night before, and they had a perfect platform for a 610 style burglar. However, we knew that the other alliances would catch on to what we were doing and pick 4334 on the way back up the draft. The plan was for me to wash out my green hair, put on ATA gear, and work Saturday morning as a member of their team, helping design the mechanism and prep the bot, while 624 pit crew members used our drawings and measurements to fabricate the burglar, all with zero physical interaction.

Seeing what was stock tubing less than 3 hours before function exactly how we wanted it to during our first QF was one of the greatest feelings I've had since I have been involved in FIRST.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXivfs2nzKQ

The whole "undercover" thing may have been a little overkill, but it was a heck of a lot of fun. Plus, I got a sweet hoodie out of the deal.

[Koko Ed]

Honestly I think the coolest moments from Recycle Rush are the cool tote sculptures the volunteers made this year. In particular the Tote castle with the working drawbridge made in FiM.