The Midwest Regional is always one of the more hotly contested regionals and there is always a display of pure performance in the elimination rounds. I’m just glad 648 made it out with only having a chain jump off of a sprocket. We had at least one robot on us at all time, most of the time two. They were battering us from all sides. Multiple times did our arm get stuck inside the rack. We were penalized for having our arm inside of Wildstang, but it most certainly wasn’t intentional. When we released the tube the arm went right down into their robot.
I was terribly sad to have to face our good friends, 107, in the quarterfinals. That was one tough round. Then again, all of the first seeded alliance’s rounds were sent to overtime.
Team Roboto 447 would like to thank 1000 and 648 for an awesome runner-up alliance.
Congrats to 111 and the remainder of the Winning Midwest Alliance.
Congrats to 71 on your Chairmans award.
It’s coming. It takes a decent amount of work to parse up the video of the matches and recompress them for download, though. I would have liked to get it all done yesterday but I had to spend most of the day catching up on all the other stuff that I’ve been ignoring to do FIRST
I’m hoping that by the end of the week I’ll have all of my video footage downloaded to my computer and then I can upload anything that pertains to 71 or 501 to the internet somewhere. I don’t have much, though, only the semifinals.
we were getting pushed around so much that we need to make johnny pull some starcraft awsomeness on teh feild. but congrats to everyone and thank you for everything! i had a blast at midwest and ya’ll are craaaazy when it copmes to cheering!
and adrian, if i make teh dress your wearing it to natin… i mean championships!
and wowza :ahh: will we need to do repairs on Lola come atlanta… some teams were vicious. … yep there be my 2 cents
now off to fundraise like crazy
Hope to see ya down there in Atlanta. (Maybe our pits will be next to eachother again!) Weren’t you guys like in at least 4 of our matches, either with or against us, in addition to the ones up at the Wisconsin Regional? You guys had a solid machine, no doubt about it, especially that holonomic drive. It was a pleasure playing with y’all through all those matches.
MWR was a ton of fun. 1243 and 1781 were great partners, although we lost in the semifinals. If only 1243’s arm didn’t break in the 2nd semi final match, because we had a great plan to beat Wildstang. Anyway, next stop is Atlanta!
Yeah, sorry about the failure. What happened was that the master link came out of the 1st reduction drive chain for the arm. It was fine all through GLR and MWR up to that point! It did allow us to play some pretty effective D against Wildstang at the rack which we were happy with, but they had one more option up their sleeve than we did with their dual ramp. Guess it just wasn’t our time. The elims were still a ton of fun and we thank you guys for picking us!
If it wasn’t for your scoring and lifting abilities, we wouldn’t have made it past the first round, so don’t feel bad about it. We had a good run. It also reminded us of the Wisconsin Regional where 1816’s transmission broke in the semi-finals. If I was another team, I wouldn’t want to be our alliance partner becauase it seems that we are bad luck…
Yep! It was quite a beast you guys had, we all agreed that we’d rather play WITH you than AGAINST you
Our holonomic drive got us the speed and maneuverability, but we underestimated how much of a role defense was going to play in the competitions~
We’ll see you in Atlanta! Hmmm… is it peach season?
You guys didn’t have much luck getting up ramps, did you? That’s probably the worst part of having a holomonic drive this year, once you attempt an incline you start sliding right back down.
I was about to download my footage to my computer but my mom apparently left my cord at her work or in someone else’s car… I might as well go blow the $40 on a new one… I’ll never get it.
Our omni wheels had little to no traction. Two of them were also bent slightly, but we’re fixing that now as well.
Due to the mechanical reality of the robot, our normal program designed to drive ‘straight’ usually made Lola veer to the side or spin a little, if you noticed during some of our earlier autonomous modes. You might have noticed the paper ‘hubcaps’ with black and white slices of color on our wheels. Those, in combination with sensors which read the rate at which the wheel rotated via the rate at which the black and white slices went past the sensor. We added a program that would cause the motors to ‘auto adjust’ to the rate of rotation of the other wheels to allow Lola to drive straight.
It didn’t work out as well as we wished, since we had to ship the robot before we could finalize the testing.
We’re fixing the program right now, and we’re keeping skateboard tape for any ramp bots that may alliance with us, so hopefully that’ll aid us a bit!
FYI, I finished the rest of the Midwest match videos and uploaded them to our site (http://media.wildstang.org/MWR07/). I imagine they’ll be on TBA as soon as the guys there get a chance to grab them and convert to FLVs.
I’m working on the remaining St. Louis videos now as well.
