“Whose side is it?”
Qual 57 FIM Shepherd: 3570 (on red) scores on the blue side of the scale. Eventually almost scores a second cube before realizing the mistake.
“Bank Shot”
Shameless self-promotion. 3082 (Chicken Bot Pie) in red lands an auto cube in the switch after it bounces off of their alliance partner 3871 (Trojan Robotics) in 2018mnmi2_qm54.
We had a 100% success rate of 1 cube in the switch at Lake Superior, but broke our Pigeon IMU during practice matches at North Star. Since we didn’t have a replacement, I had to write a new auto routine that was mostly guesswork based on encoder values and time… it only worked once on the competition field (but many times on the practice field), and this was that once.
Blackout Dance Party!
q33txel2018 Teams: 2583, 5242, 6133, 624, 6131, 6377
“SuperNOVA Suffers a Scare”
From 2018chcmp_qm98 featuring team 4472, SuperNOVA
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“Thanks for the Free Win”
Qual match 35 at MFR featuring 4607 scoring 125 Foul Points in 10 seconds off 2500 who ended up in a(n) (un)fortunate position after auto.
The low point of our season:
“The ol backwards/forwards switcheroo!”
Team 2383 in Qual 17 at South Florida Regional. Driver and operator switched up their directions ::ouch::
We had 8 matches to repair our bent intake, but we managed to field a functioning robot in Qual 25 for our first win of the day.
After a slightly less bumpy ride through Quals, We sorted out our directions and went on to be regional finalists with 1744 and 3164! 
When you really need to talk to your Human Player.
(Watch between scoring table and refs)
During 2018flwp_qm45 6001’s coach apparently really needed to talk to his human player.
Title: “Synchronized Auto Shots”
Match: Quarters 4 Match 2 at the NC District Forsyth County Event
Teams Involved: 6502 DARC SIDE and 3737 Roto-Raptors
TBA: http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2018ncwin_qf4m2
Simply put, these are the most synchronized auto shots you could ask for! From the timing of the turn of the robots, the time when they fire, the height that the cubes reach, and the way the scale stays perfectly still. Also, note the reaction of the ref in the lower left, priceless.
4643’s Legendary 4 Line Autonomous Mode
In the first 15 seconds of 2018idbo_qm42, 4643 managed to cross EACH alliance’s autonomous line TWICE before slamming into their own driver’s station. We must have spent 20 minutes at our scouting meeting watching this masterpiece. They would go on to fix their auto mode, landing the auto quest at every match they played after this one.
that looks freakin awesome!
Voting for Week 5 is going to be tough, tough, tough…
One simple request, can penalty-call-inducing moves get their own category? I count at least 4.
“Maybe We Are A Little Bit Top Heavy”
Finals 2 2018 PNW District Auburn Mountainview Event
This is the only time I remember seeing 1778 fall over this season (maybe I’m mistaken) and it couldn’t have come at a worse time for them. They played great though, and we’re looking forward to seeing them at the PNW District championship.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-02-2018/h2WRH3.gif](/gif/just-a-bit-top-heavy-h2WRH3)
Our preferred title is “If a Double Reverse 4 Bar Falls in the Finals, Does it Make a Sound?” :rolleyes:
Yep, that is the only time we’ve tipped this season and plan to keep it that way! It ended up as a best case fall, the robot went over relatively gently, and the lift was extended such the shock of the fall was nicely distributed.
Trust Fall
291 catches 4780 as it topples over in Qualification 81 at the Buckeye Regional. 2018ohcl_qm81
Don’t worry, this won’t happen again… 
I’m pretty sure this is the best set of contest submissions yet!
+1 Your submission is like a cheat code though! I thought my Gif was decent until I saw the blackout! So cool.
I’m just lucky I got the blackout first. But there’s some pretty good gifs here, and it ain’t over till it’s over.
Also, my favorite part of the blackout is that 624 still goes to climb, hooks on, and starts climbing, in the dark. That’s when you know you BALL SO HARD.
“Recycle Rush?”
Qual 31 at the Troy District
469 steers left blocking 226’s switch auto, but causes an auton two stack on 469. (right side of field) 2018mitry_qm31
We really wanted that 4th RP Plus we had LEDs so we could see pretty well.
What’s interesting is I remeber hearing about a similr incident on FUN a while ago.