Lots of good teams had a bad weekend including 1126’s first pick 233 who ended the weekend with a losing record (4-7). That’s a pretty rare occurrence for them.
I’d have to talk to my scouts to see how 51 did, but 51 was fairly limited strategically with their H/slide drive. Since their best chance of getting picked was as a backup, I’m not surprised they were passed over for some teams that could play defense. This is also one of the reasons I wanted to trade 74 (mechanum drive) for 1732 (6 traction wheel, geared for pushing), because I felt they had a better chance of getting picked as a backup.
I’m not sure. I was impressed with 51’s use of their mechanums in their pre-IRI matches. They could play great tube defense when needed, as well as were a fast scorer, able to put up roughly 4+ tubes a match. Watching their matches prior to IRI, I would’ve loved to have them as a support robot, but the 51 I saw at IRI was not the same team I saw playing with High Rollers and The RAWC on Einstein. Still, that’ not a knock to them in particular. A lot of teams suffered the same deal; as Ed said, 233 was included.`
Even if it wasn’t their besrt showing, it was still an honor to work with PINK! We had a blast! Working with 2016 was also an amazing experience. Unfortunately, we neveer had the opportunity to play 3098, but they were still helpful in match strategy, and an enthusiastic team! Despite being the 8th seed alliance and getting knocked out in two QF matches, it was still alot of fun!
1114, 67 and 987, you guys were alot of fun to play against! I’m sorry things didn’t work out during the semifinals.
And of course, congratulations to 33, 217, 359 and 2056 for the win!
51 did great, they just were at the deepest event in modern FIRST history. 234, 330, 51, 1625, 74 all didn’t get picked.
330 was the only team in the top 16 to not get in while the 63rd ranked team got picked.
Nor 1718.
51 actually had new drivers. I was the coach as I was all season. IRI is a really tough event to begin with. Especially for new drivers. We had a few really good matches where everything went great. We also had 3 terrible matches where we had a broken arm which caused us to miss auto 2 times and not being able to score one tube in 3 matches. The culprit was a bad window motor which just came apart and we didn’t catch it. Our new driver also had issues with lining up to the pole so we had mini bot issues 3 times as well. I expected to do better. But we are in training for drivers for next year as our Einstein drivers have moved on.
Ah… two things that plagued some of the greatest teams at IRI: Robot wear-and-tear, and new drivers in training. Regardless of your problems, you were a great team to work with. A great robot all around! We look forward to meeting again someday.
-Leeland