I was field-side. The fouls were for other stuff. Reserve didn’t get pulled at all in sf1-1. Was used on rotor 3 in F2.
Pilot on the left-turning-side bot pulled and hit rotor 1, then moved around while the other pilot pulled the other two. Both gears handed up at once, placed and cranked. Cleaned up the gear handles afterward. They came within a crank turn of doing it a third time in F1.
Two rotor autonomous happened at FiM-Waterford yesterday in qualifying match 28.
Congratulations to 5843, 548 and 5090 on this great accomplishment.
Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/SfQoIHGr2lY
It looks like they clearly grabbed the free gear that starts on the airship during autonomous…
A 2 rotor autonomous may be possible, but it won’t be the winning strategy at Champs. It only makes sense for alliances that don’t have Fuel capability.
40 kPa auton >>> 2 Rotor Auton and it’s not even close
Team 1986 has one of the best fuel autons in FRC right now, and their alliance was knocked out by the first alliance to successfully pull off a 2-rotor autonomous.
Who is to say that the winning alliance at Champs will have or use their fuel capability? It seems very likely, but stuff happens. I could see an alliance like 1987-624-5801 (not much fuel capability) taking Champs, or I could see an alliance like 2481-4143-2220 (40 kPa and gears) winning. Out of those alliances, who do you think would win? I think it would be close.
Our alliance at the Greater Kansas City Regional just completely our last final match, winning, with starting two rotors in auto and haveing all four rotors done at the end with all robots having climbed the rope. Both of those are firsts. (Our alliance was ctc inspire 5801, bronco bots 1987 and cryptonite 624)
Oh… sorry about that
Very Nice!
What was your score?
Dave
I am 1987’s pilot, we never used the reserve gear in auto.
This was our last match of the day and we got 494 points. 
To help clarify some questions earlier as well, I helped a lot with pilot strategy so hopefully I can help.
All three robots on our alliance of course had a gear autonomous, but very different speeds – almost every time, 1987 finished first, then us (5801), then 624. Whichever pilot grabbed the first gear would stick around instead of going to engage the first rotor, instead focusing on retrieving the third gear while the other pilot finished getting the second. They could then put one up on the first rotor while the other pilot had two gears in hand, able to put them on and get the second rotor started up, hopefully within autonomous.
We continued a similar strategy throughout the match in order to consistently get all four rotors spinning, not engaging the third until we had enough gears collected to do so, instead keeping them in a stack by the pilots in order to cut down on trips back and forth across the airship. Same for the fourth rotor. Not related to autonomoua either but we emphasised getting the fourth rotor turning over climbing if we only had one or two gears left in order to do so, as the 40 for a rotor and extra 100 for all four was more beneficial than two climbs.
We definitely hope to see some more teams getting it, and hopefully we can do it again at Champs.
Correction: 469, we got the higher score a later match I believe (?)
Yesterday at the Greater Kansas City Regional the winning alliance got a 3 gear 2 rotor turn in Autonomous twice, once during the simi-finals and once during the finals. The alliance was teams 1987, 624 and 5801. They also had a match where they scored 494 points. Only 5 pts from fuel. Three amazing gear running teams. The alliance went undefeated from the quarter finals to the finals. 6-0
I really doubt that there will be many 2 rotor autos. Even if all robots manage to place a gear I don’t think that time constraints will allow a pilot to place 3 gears. Keeping in mind they have to crank the rotor 3 times. As I have seen a pilot is barely able to place 1 gear in time.
Did you read the thread before you posted? Please consider doing that before you post. You might miss something that’s already been said.
Here’s a link to the second 2 rotor autonomous that our alliance scored in the final championship match of the Greater Kansas City Regional yesterday: https://youtu.be/ANYH14XXSk4
Awesome work by our alliance airship pilots!
Team 103’s alliance at MAR SCH almost pulled it off multiple times but never quite got it. I believe one of the robots kept placing a gear on the very tip so the Pilots had to be careful bringing it up. They missed it by just a second one time though.
And BTW 2 of the 3 had passive gear delivery systems.
Had a 2-rotor auto at Ventura–but with the reserve gear being pulled. Oops.
Team 103 just barely got the two rotor auto in their second semi finals match at SCH. Pilot one pulled up 103’s gear, left the gear carriage on the floor. He then pulled up 5420’s gear and put it on the second rotor. Pilot two pulled up 4342’s gear, put it on rotor two’s handle then put 103’s gear on rotor one. Pilot One spun the second rotor and the rotor engaged with one second left in auto. 103 and 4342 were on the side pegs. The match video is on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/JR1EvnaRdNk?t=22437
(This link may break eventually, YouTube is finicky…)
(Edit: it broke, now fixed)
Our alliance made the 2nd rotor with about a second or less remaining. Amazing work by the pilots to get all 3 gears placed in time!
Semis 2 Match 2
136 points total in autonomous
356 total match score