The Triple Tortuga is Contest born.

[Sperkowsky]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

I cannot wait to see all those bumpers and batteries laying on the field this year

+1. We were driving our robot around and a decently robust battery holder that could probably survive an entire regional with most games pooped out the battery up. Granted there was no top strap but still.

[Andrew Schreiber]

I'm gonna pop into here to add yet another bold prediction to Joe's contest.

Since the introduction of the Copioli/JVN kitbot transmissions in 2005 and the wonderful evolution of both the KoP drive system and COTs drive systems we've become accustomed to "robot moves" being taken for granted. This is really one of the first years where I see that being questionable for many teams. There's an abundance of teams doing custom drive systems for the first time. Couple this with the fact that crossing some of these barriers is going to be rough and you have a recipe for bad.

Driving isn't going to be assumed. Turning even less so.

[OccamzRazor]

Yeah I cant wait to see the Dukes of Stronghold hit the defenses with those bouncy pneumatic tires and land wheels up. The season highlights should be hilarious completed with barrel rolls and near misses. Points if someone lands on a ball and flips over because of it.

Better test and test and test some more!

[MaGiC_PiKaChU]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

Yeah I cant wait to see the Dukes of Stronghold hit the defenses with those bouncy pneumatic tires and land wheels up. The season highlights should be hilarious completed with barrel rolls and near misses. Points if someone lands on a ball and flips over because of it.

Better test and test and test some more!

I wonder how many teams planned on being able to flip themselves back on track(s) if(when) that happens

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

Y<snip> Dukes of Stronghold <snip>

I see what you're doing, pulling at my heart strings by referencing a TV show from my misspent youth.
I know what you're doing but it worked.

I hereby ask FIRST to make a rule that eemcees at Stronghold competitions must use that term whenever a robot that gets air crossing a defense.

If the robot crashes spectacularly we can have the eemcee make yet another TV reference from the 70s:



"A robot barely alive... ...We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better, stronger, faster" cue music...

Ah yes, decades ago but in my mind it was like it was yesterday...

Dr. Joe J.

[OccamzRazor]

Maybe shorten it to Dukebots. And stuff like vaulting over other robots might become normal.

It has happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5nnGGRi-94

[ratdude747]

Not my video, but through a facebook share, I have a week 0 single tortuga:

https://www.facebook.com/MBR4272/vid...60004/?fref=nf

Cheval de fail? At least it wasn't an actual match...

[EricH]

No video, but we had a couple of tortugas at the SCRRF Scrimmage. Ramparts got one, Moat got another one or two. Moat claimed the tipped robot, crossed and then landed on its back.

[Electronica1]

This was the first one I saw. I honestly didn't expect the portcullis to make people flip like that.

[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Electronica1

This was the first one I saw. I honestly didn't expect the portcullis to make people flip like that.

I know it's a little mean and I shouldn't smile and that this is FIRST and we don't do these kind of things. And, I'm sorry for the team involved, but I just can't look away. That tortuga just comes out of NOWHERE. Things are going so well it seems and then the Cosmic Turtle just reaches a finger out of its shell, touches that robot and, Boom Done! So fast, so stuck, so long.

And this was basically a good robot from a great team. What is going to happen when you get the general population of teams out there crossing defenses?

Oh Man. Those first few weeks of the season are going to be something to see.

Dr. Evil Joe J.

[Roboshant]

This is screenshot of a match at Palmetto where there was a double Tortuga and 1 robot which was not functional.on the field.

[seg9585]

Originally Posted by EricH

No video, but we had a couple of tortugas at the SCRRF Scrimmage. Ramparts got one, Moat got another one or two. Moat claimed the tipped robot, crossed and then landed on its back.

Here is a picture of a moat tortuga you mentioned:

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by OccamzRazor

Yeah I cant wait to see the Dukes of Stronghold hit the defenses with those bouncy pneumatic tires and land wheels up. The season highlights should be hilarious completed with barrel rolls and near misses. Points if someone lands on a ball and flips over because of it.

Like this?

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Like this?

That's impressive.

[Hitchhiker 42]

Originally Posted by CalTran

That's impressive.

It's amazing how such low robots are able to get tipped over.