Blue eventually won round 4 and went home with the Winning Alliance award.
At the first official qualifying tournament of the year, the “Scarifier” held on October 31st, in Fremont, California.
Techno Guards (2848) won the Inspire Award, and ScotBots (548) were the captains of the winning alliance, both automatically qualify for the NorCal Regional Championship in January.
Don’t see a lot of batons dispensed for this match. Looks like teams are having a difficult time with those Was the entire match played more defensively?
The matches were very defensive! The team found out how difficult it is to get the batons a) out of the dispensers, and b) into the rolling goals when everyone else is there. Also the head ref was VERY particular about the control of goals rules. It always seemed to end up that all four of the robots were on the same side of the field at the same time too.
Here are some videos i found, and from what i saw there was a ton of defense (it looked VERY hard to score) and most of the points were scored at the “End game” when the robots balanced on the bridge.
An unrelated question – can you please describe why your wheel base is articulated such that it can “open” and “close”? My students saw this on a video and were confused as to its usefulness.
We are the huge robot on the right. This is the final game of the scrimmage and the bridge balanced literally two seconds before the end of the game and the drive team was absolutely ecstatic! we ended up winning the game 52 to 15 due to points scored off of autonomous and preloaded batons. Team 110 also won the Inspire award at the competition.
Was the entire match played more defensively?