Astronomically High Scores at Silicon Valley

[TikiTech]

Thanks for assuming we were cheating, but if you had asked you would have found out the inspectors and refs decided teams should demonstrate that they can establish a compliant transportation configuration, but in the interests of saving time during setup should bring the robot on in it’s starting configuration.

The robot inspection process was complete as every other regional, weight, BOM, transport configuration, etc…

The event ruling was if the starting configuration fit within the area of your robot cart then it was acceptable to transport to the field assembled.

We were using a simple hand truck for moving our robot around. If we orientated our robot so that our pickup system and lift prongs were not protruding, we could stay assembled.

This did truly speed up the match turn around times. And did not create any unsafe transportation conditions at the event that I was aware of.

It was our first time at SVR and would love to come back again. Thanks to everyone that made the regional a pleasant experience. Was great to see and work with the many high level teams showing how it can be done. Amazing!

Good luck to everyone heading off to champs!

Aloha!

Shout out to Devin, thanks for taking time out to “talk story” with us and helping with ideas for the future. Mahalo!

[Dog-n-Pony_Show]

PNW had so many good teams that our #6 alliance had a Semi Finals average of 201.33 and STILL missed making the finals by 2/3 of a point. Does anyone know if any other competitions had 200+ SF averages that didn’t make finals? This was teams 3663, 4450 and 4911.

[RoboChair]

Shout out to Devin, thanks for taking time out to “talk story” with us and helping with ideas for the future. Mahalo!

It was my pleasure! I had a fantastic time at SVR meeting teams and making new friends. Working and talking with 3880, 5026, 5027, 254, 2035, 2135, 115, and 5728 was a blast! My only regret was not having enough time to get to know more teams. It seems my contacts list grows a few teams every event Citrus Circuits attends.

[JB987]

And that has been happening since the first week when they found out that trying to follow the rule slowed down the competition schedule too much. All of the other competitions have has the starting configuration set up since.

Actually not accurate to state all other competitions have had the starting configuration set up allowed prior to reaching the field. At the LVR, we could NOT do so as the head referee decided to adhere to the letter of the rule…though as a member of the planning committee I tried to talk him into the “relaxation” of the rule since so many events had reported doing so in prior weeks. It was decided that we would wait and see if we were having trouble maintaining a reasonable cycle time. As it turned out we managed to stay on time and stayed within the rule. The question now is what will the practice be at Champs? It would be nice if FIRST would address this issue and all of us enter the event with the same expectations.

[TikiTech]

Actually not accurate to state all other competitions have had the starting configuration set up allowed prior to reaching the field. At the LVR, we could NOT do so as the head referee decided to adhere to the letter of the rule…though as a member of the planning committee I tried to talk him into the “relaxation” of the rule since so many events had reported doing so in prior weeks. It was decided that we would wait and see if we were having trouble maintaining a reasonable cycle time. As it turned out we managed to stay on time and stayed within the rule. The question now is what will the practice be at Champs? It would be nice if FIRST would address this issue and all of us enter the event with the same expectations.

Agreed,

At the Hawaii Regional the transport configuration was required. Our team learned to quickly install and tear down our lift arms.

A few quiet verbal warnings might have been given. Well more like mentions on the loud speaker letting the audience know what the teams were up to before and after each match to comply with the transport rules.

Every team managed to comply without penalties.

Although after going to a much larger event I saw how much time was saved.

At the champs with so many variations and possible factory bots, I hope they do require the transport configuration. It was part of the design process that kept many elaborate designs shelved.

Looking forward to the championships!

Aloha

[Abhishek_R]

Actually not accurate to state all other competitions have had the starting configuration set up allowed prior to reaching the field. At the LVR, we could NOT do so as the head referee decided to adhere to the letter of the rule…though as a member of the planning committee I tried to talk him into the “relaxation” of the rule since so many events had reported doing so in prior weeks. It was decided that we would wait and see if we were having trouble maintaining a reasonable cycle time. As it turned out we managed to stay on time and stayed within the rule. The question now is what will the practice be at Champs? It would be nice if FIRST would address this issue and all of us enter the event with the same expectations.

Same, at Utah we were required to enter the field in transport configuration, then after the match, go back into transport on the field, or sometimes in a rush you were allowed to do so immediately off the field. At Lone Star we weren’t required to go into transport if it was safe to configure in the queue.

[JB987]

So, it appears that two standards of enforcement have been allowed to take place this season regarding T6. At least some of us will be well prepared if T6 is in fact enforced to the letter at Champs…I would sure hate to see a team disabled for failure to set up in time

[JVN]

So, it appears that two standards of enforcement have been allowed to take place this season regarding T6. At least some of us will be well prepared if T6 is in fact enforced to the letter at Champs…I would sure hate to see a team disabled for failure to set up in time

Too soon.

[Richard_McCann]

It was my pleasure! I had a fantastic time at SVR meeting teams and making new friends. Working and talking with 3880, 5026, 5027, 254, 2035, 2135, 115, and 5728 was a blast! My only regret was not having enough time to get to know more teams. It seems my contacts list grows a few teams every event Citrus Circuits attends.

Devin is our GP god!

[asid61]

It was my pleasure! I had a fantastic time at SVR meeting teams and making new friends. Working and talking with 3880, 5026, 5027, 254, 2035, 2135, 115, and 5728 was a blast! My only regret was not having enough time to get to know more teams. It seems my contacts list grows a few teams every event Citrus Circuits attends.

Haha our electrical lead knows everybody. If I want to contact another team In just ask him and he’ll connect me to somebody who knows somebody on that team. Citrus was definitely cool to check out and talk to.