Better than most of the reveals I’ve seen, although it was rather hard to read all the words.
115 will be watching Sac reaaaallly closely, although we are sorry we can’t join you guys this year!
Fantastic event as always and a fantastic, and definitely surprising result for my team as we won the Engineering Inspiration award.
Huge shoutout to everyone on 1678 for all of the help they gave us both at this competition and at CVR, especially to Kelly for spending almost her entire day Thursday working with my team. See you guys at champs!
Thanks everyone for a fantastic event! 971 had a blast. The volunteers were awesome, the event was well run, and we got to play a bunch of matches with all our friends. I know the competitions are supposed to be competitions, but sometimes they seem like social events.
Thanks 1678 and 5274 for playing with us in the elimination matches. 1678 put up some good points and 5274 played some wicked D. It takes a special alliance to break 200.
Team 1678 had a fun time at this event with a few ups and downs. Despite failing miserably in our penultimate qualification match, 971 still believed in us enough to pick us. Thank you for asking us to join your alliance. The elimination matches were a blast and 5274 played some stellar defense in the finals.
Thanks to all of the teams who competed so hard and especially to some of the perennial and emerging CA powerhouses (1323, 1671, 701, 2073 and 3250) who kept us all biting our nails to the end.
Finally, a huge shout out to Rookie All Star Award winner, team 5924, who came out looking like a seasoned veteran. I’m anticipating a great future from this awesome team.
The students and mentors of Team 5924 can’t thank all of you enough for the wisdom shared with us at this event. While we had a unique vantage point of the current no-penalty world record score as you dropped that score on us, we would have it no other way than to go out fighting against a world class alliance with the defending world champs leading the charge.
Trying to defend 1678 and 971 at the same time felt like a cross between acting as John Conner in “Terminator: Rise of the Machines” and the feeling of being a single defender trying to simultaneously guard Steph Curry and Klay Thompson with someone feeding them an endless supply of basketballs. I can still hear the chains from the high goal jingling in my ear. lol
Seriously though, I truly understand “Gracious Professionalism” after:
the advice from Steve (1678) on the practice field
the curricular resources from Tyler (1678)
the help cutting a polycarbonate sheet from Devin (1678) while we tried giving rookie cheesecake to another rookie team during qualifications
the extra VersaPlanetary gearbox we needed given to us by Bryan (4159)
the ethernet to USB adapter provided by Clint (2144)
all of the great advice from Mike (1678) and Austin (971)
the epic teamwork & synergy we felt with ALL of the RoboVikes (701) that started with our first caravan through the portcullis in that great match we lost at the last second when 3250 beat us by climbing with that epic Batman-style grappling hook
the offseason help from Rob (3250)
and the huge amount of advice and hands-on practice time on their field given to us by Travis, Cory, Jared, Nick, and the rest of the mentors and student leaders from the Poofs (254) from day 1 when we didn’t even know you were allowed to build a second robot, until the Friday before the competition when we busted our robot up real good on their practice field and found the weak points of the robot that needed to be fixed before Sacramento.
We’re ecstatic to compete with all of you again, honored to win the Rookie All-Star Award and be chosen for the playoffs (thanks 3669!), and can’t wait to go to SVR & Champs in St. Louis. Thanks for the memories and good luck the rest of the way to all of you.
I saw many teams leave that 1 QP on the floor by quickly defeating 3.5 outer works, and then spend a minute or more trying to score one ball or defend against a team who was clearly far ahead of them. Often they would ignore an easily breached defense and repeatedly cross a more difficult already defeated defense. This results in a zero QPs for your alliance. 3 QPs difference is a 20 point ranking difference. Plus it shows a well run dependable team. I also saw one team, with 2 disabled allies patiently clear 3 defenses solo, and then make it to the batter for a 55 point score and 1 QP. Driver and coach situational awareness is very important.
Very few teams used the human player spy - I am not sure why, but a spy can very very effective for a low profile machine. Several teams used high camera on a pole for seeing over the outer works.
