Greatest Success This Season

FIRST General Forum
#21

Having a fully functional scouting system that we could realistically depend on for data. My strategy team and programmers did a fantastic job with our google sheets based scouting system and my scouts did just as good of a job using it. Thanks to them, along with a massive amount of remote help from 987, we were able to collect fairly accurate and dependable data at all 4 of our events this season.

Coming back from a horrifically bad strategic analysis of the game and our capabilities as a team. From missing elims and ranking 60/66 at San Diego as a fuel-only bot to being the 4th overall pick at Las Vegas as a gear specialist and then finally touching carpet in championship elims. I’m proud of my kids for putting in the work to turn our season around.

I guess a personal victory for me is being fortunate enough to work with such great kids and mentors.

#22

I really love reading this thread so I’ll add some of our team’s successes:

We started 2 FLL teams and coached them twice a week. We doubled in size and managed our growth effectively. We created a working electronic scouting system this year (compared to our ineffective, not very useful paper system from last year). While we ran out of time to fully integrate vision, we made huge strides in this area and are well poised to use vision successfully next year. When our track didn’t jamb, our shooter was 80-90% accurate. We successfully used CAD for the first time this season. We were alliance captains for the first time ever (we certainly did have a lucky schedule though). Our cheering section was significantly more enthusiastic.

All in all, we had a terrific season and we can’t wait for next year!

#23

My team 1018 has had its best year in its history. This year we completely reworked the organization of our team and in the beginning of the season on kickoff we strictly set our goals and priorities and made it our goal to accomplish them. By doing this we were working with a set idea in mind and as mentioned before by other people, we actually made a robot that worked and worked well. We won our first blue banner in team history and qualified for the St. Louis Championships. There we were selected for the 8th seed alliance but were knocked out in quarter finals. This is an exceptional year for us as we only barely qualified for our district championship last year. Overall it was the best four months of my life.

#24

I reduced my hands-on mentoring time by 75% or more, and new students and mentors stepped up to the plate in my absence (while still building a pretty good robot).

#25

Stepped outside the mold of an (albeit successful) COTS box on wheels from last season to build something entirely custom and unique with a gear mechanism that I don’t think I’ve seen on anyone else’s robots this season. May not have been the most successful in terms of awards and on-field performance but I had a helluva time building it and love that bot to death.

For me personally I met some new friends, hung out with old ones, and got some cool t-shirts along the way.

#26

Ate the best and second best ribs in the world (all in one day!)

#27

Now that is a goal all mentors should aspire to!

Sadly, Detroit is not known for BBQ. However, Greektown has some interesting options. And for teams at the other CMP, I think Texas holds its own in the rib department.

#28

I know I made this thread but I really would like to add to it, as I’m profoundly proud of my team.
This is the best year we’ve had since our founding seven years again hands down. From last year having pneumatics fail on us to this year having a strong gear machine that got us picked in elims for both of our regionals, we’ve grown a lot. Not only have we gained so much traction from an engineering front, but also as a team. Instead of just letting the seniors do all the work, a group of us really stepped up and learned everything possible from them to try and keep the momentum they gave us. We were able to keep level headed through many a crisis and only came out of it closer.
And, to toot my own horn, I feel like I’ve grown a lot too. Being the only girl who participates and went to one of the regionals has given me such a thick skin and taught me how to get myself heard. My love for the team has also grown so much as I went from barely showing up to going overtime every possible moment.
All in all, we had an amazing season and I thank everyone who helped us along the way.

#29

Well, we got our first banner :slight_smile: Really, super proud of this team. The kids killed it this year.

#NotSoShakeyAnymore

#30

While we had a generically successful season by many metrics (built a pretty good robot, won a Quality Award, picked first round by #3 seed alliance at both regionals, were picked for division finals), to me, the greatest success is that 6 kids applied to be outreach leader for next year - more than applied for any other leadership role. Because while they love the technical aspects of FRC, they have also finally gotten the importance of the other aspects of being an FRC team, and I cannot wait to see where they take the team in years to come!

#31

If that was only a “pretty good robot” you should consider cutting back even more next year. :ahh: You guys built one heck of a machine; kudos to the new folks that stepped up.

So when were you in Kansas City, and to which two places did you go? Or was it only one place in KC and then you travelled for the 2nd-best somewhere in St. Louis? :smiley:

#32

We had the first successful floor gear pickup at the Robert Shaw Center.

Picked 9th overall and held our own against future Einstein finalist 118 (although they were down a bot) in elims round 2.

#33

95 Successfully implemented vision control this year. That was pretty sweet.

#34

Helped make nine FRC events a success.
IN other news my team won it’s first regional in five years and we made the eliminations at the championships for the first time in six years!

#35

The robot CAD and the physical robot(s) are acutally within 1/16 of each other in general dimensional tolerances or better. And about 90% of the parts on the robot exist in CAD.

So when the ball intake got traded out of an gear intake that was designed/built in 2-3 days it acutally fit on all the robot(s)!

#36

Fielded a robot running ROS.

Used VR to train our driver.

Won Chairmans.

Won DCMP.

It was a good year.

#37

Our rookie group made it to District Champs this year… pretty happy about that. More happy that the team is still meeting even without a season. Seems like the kids like hanging around with each other and working on some tech projects.

Detroit has great Greek food, sliders, and coney dogs… the things I would do for a solid coney on the east coast…

All I know is I will be spending my off time at Green Dot Stables in Detroit.

#38

Actually competing this year. Last year we placed withing the last 5 at every single event we attended. This year at our first regional, we were the 6th seeded alliance captain, and at our second regional we were seeded 10th, and we got picked by the 5th seeded alliance. We also maintained the 3rd highest OPR. At worlds our team did pretty good, going 5-5, and throwing up 120 OPR. We got picked by the number one seeded alliance(118, 1678, 4188), and went ALL THE FRICKIN WAY TO EINSTEIN FINALS WAAAAAAT. We’ve come so far in such a small amount of time. So happy with our results this season, and couldnt have asked for better. So proud of everyone on this team.

#39

VR to train a driver? How? Im a driver I NEED THIS :D!

#40

I played it they demoed it NC DCMP, it uses the logitech x-box like controller commonly to control robots and an HTC vive and had a field and their robot in the simulation. The physics were actually pretty accurate to real life too.