E-stop record??

FIRST General Forum
#1

I think we may have set a negative record in our stay in atlanta… we’ve hit the E-stop 5 times in our 7 qualification matches (first time electrical problem all the others tipping over…)
is that a record? :slight_smile:

anyway… we all had a great time :smiley:

#2

We’ve hit e-stop about 5 times this year. 1 for tipping in Atlanta, 1 for an electrical problem and 1 for a penumatics problem (meanging shifters wouldn’t engage) in Philly and twice at VCU for electrical problems.

This wasn’t the best of years for our robot.

#3

I think this was the first time I’ve personally hit the E-stop in a match, after we’d fallen apart (again) in a Chesapeake practice match. I don’t recall us hitting it in qualification matches, though.

#4

:smiley: this was the first year that we DIDN’T hit our E-stop!! EVER!! YAY!!:smiley:

#5

We hit the e-stop in every single one of our matches in the 2001 season. Does that count? :slight_smile:

#6

NO! Bad Jeff, bad! hits with stick

For those of you “noobs” out there, 2001 had a multiplier of scores based on how quickly the matched ended, and to end the match all teams had to e-stop.

#7

At Davis we hit the E-Stop close to every match, not wanting to risk a <G22>, after the drive train failed as soon as we crossed the other alliance’s finish line and spun our front into the wall, parallel with the line.

#8

We haven’t E-Stopped in at least the past three years, and I believe past four.

#9

we had to hit it once in the semifinals of AZ
and once in a practice when a freshmen on the drive team said “OH BIG RED BUTTON”

#10

Twice this year.

Once when our drive train broke, and then again when our radio cable (screwed in mind you) ripped out of our robot controller.

Good stuff. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

#11

Yeah, that happened to us in one of the qualification matches at VCU. :rolleyes:

#12

I have been on the drive team for 233 3 years in a row, and I had to be the one to break the streak of no E-stopping at the Hawaiian Regional during one of the Semi’s

#13

We hit our e-stop allot this year but, surprisingly we did not hit it in championships. But In NJ i think it was about more then half the matches we played we were hiting the big red button. We even used our broken robot to our advantage once by e-stooping under our travkball on the overpass .

But i am hopping that next year we will not need the big red button that is so much fun to hit. Every time you hit i think it lowers the moral of the team.

Matthew Simpson
Team 75 Driver

#14

Agreed :frowning:

#15