We managed to finish the set point on Thursday. the autonomous was working just fine on the practice field Thursday night. but Friday morning in the filed the camper couldn’t find the green light becks of really bright sealing lights. after working with the camera on Friday, we scored 10 times on Saturday (almost every single time.) , i think we missed it two times because the keeper wasn’t preloaded correctly.
as you saw we were only scoring on the bottom row in front of us, but in Vegas we are going for the middle row, and maybe on sides of the rack so if there is another robot with autonomous in our side, we won’t interfere.
At the florida regional we made 7 of 8 times in the qualifying rounds with the one failing did so because we did not recalibrate the arm (ran out of time).
In the finals we did 6 of 8 because there was no time to adjust the camera with it causing us to come short.
But overall 13 out of 16 times I felt good about it. Failures we do to adjustments needed, we are trying to solve that so we can have 100%.
Auto mode did make a difference.
We Scored 3 of the 8 in the Qualifing matches that we were in and scored twice in the elimiation rounds. We are going to improve auton, until are next competition in West Michigan. We hope to show a lot better and hope to see a lot more keepers put up.
Beach Bots was the only team to do it at LA
Quite correct. No camera on the robot, just take aim and hope the refs turn the rack right for us.
Team Voltage 386 in the Central Florida Regional:
Center Best: 6 of 7 attempts (sweet spot)
Reverse Score: 0 of 1 attempt
Side Score: 0 of 3 attempts
We won our first qualifier (Q9) with a score of 2 to 0 with only the KEEPER on the rack!
The one we missed was due to the foot swinging side to side in time with our autonomous retry. We went at it 2 or 3 times and it was always not in the center of the swing. An opposition 'bot had slammed the rack from the other side.
Reverse Score was driving backwards to the FAR side of the field, turn to face the rack, locate the light and go to score. We ended up coming in the edge of the side foot and missed our EASY button scoring trigger. We ran this Friday in our last qualifier as we were allied with Exploding Bacon (1902) and we knew from a practice with them that we’d collide in the center if we did our preferred approach.
Side Score was a newly written mode Saturday morning just in case we ended up in the finals with an autonomous partner (like 1902, which we did as a substitute for 108). We were supposed to back out, back turn into the rail, locate the light, and go in to score. Unfortunately, we turned forwards into the rack and were too close to maneuver to score. Came REALLY CLOSE all three times though!
We will be in Palmetto with corrections for the spider side miss and will have corrected the turns for Side Score. Watch for us!
Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software & Coach
PS. According to Dennis, the field chief, we had the best autonomous mode in the competition, but I’d have to say that 1902 ran a really close second!
We made an attempt every match, but only once did we actually put it over the spyder leg.
Today 1629 scored the first keeper at Chesapeake. 165 also scored in the same match. Then we scored again during our second Quarter-final match.
648 scored 6 keepers throughout competition at the Midwest Regional. However, we were the only team to successfully move towards the rack with a keeper, I believe. We also got three in a row during eliminations.
I believe that we scored a total of 6 or 7 times at the UTC regional… i don’t really know.
thats pretty good considering that our robot’s drive train and arm were shot for the first 5 matches…
1369 got on 4 keepers (that I saw/recall) in the elimination round at peachtree today. I’m sure they got on others that I didn’t see too.
Detroit regional, based on what matches I could see (because my duties usually made me very busy around the start of the matches):
1718 scored frequently
33 scored at least once
314 at least once, after an agonizingly long wait till the last seconds of auton before they dropped
397 - did they score?
217 and 2283 tried, but never scored
I think I’m forgetting someone. Sorry.
At the Florida regional I kept track of the wins versus keeper hanging. I discovered that every time a keeper was hung on the rack, that alliance won the match.
There was only one exception during the qualifying matches. Thus for 68 matches played, only one time that a keeper was on the rack did the alliance lose the match. This gives a 98% win record for an alliance that hung a keeper.
Now, we only saw about 20 successful keeper hangings. Thus, using this as the statistic base, an alliance still has a 95% chance of a win by hanging a keeper. With such a high percentage, I am surprised that more teams do not at least attempt the keeper hanging.
Does anyone have statistics on the other regionals?
I predict that hanging a keeper will be attempted at the nationals on every match.
Jerry w
I suspect that robots that can hang keepers are pretty good robots. There is likely a correlation due to that, more than due to the importance of keepers on the final score.
I predict that hanging a keeper will be attempted at the Championship on every match.
fyp 
I’d guess something like 20-40% of the teams at the Championship will be able to score keepers more or less successfully. There’s a lot of ramp-bots that have qualified, and a lot of hanger-bots that don’t have auto. Given 6 teams on the field at any time, chances are one of them would have an auto-mode. But there will be a significant number of matches without any keepers attempted.
Us (67) and 1114 were very consistant with Keeper scoring at GLR, hopefully it can be kept up at West Michigan. Although I don’t remember the actual percentage, I believe 33 attempted everytime, and scored many times as well (A lot has happened since GLR)
I hope we can stay consistant at West Michigan.
At Silicon Valley Regional, there was only 1 keeper scored the whole regional. This was by team 846 the funky monkeys
Alot were scored at UTC. 230, 1124, 716, 25, 40, and a few others got them onto the rack a few times.
1718 was very consistant with their keepers. I believe i saw 1 time that they did not score in auto
The best autonomous score I’ve seen was 648. The robot had a crab drive system, so it went up to the rack, and then tied to put down the tube on the 2nd rung. The tube dropped vertically off it. The announcer had the time to say, “Oh, looks like it won’t be scored.” The tube then hits the ground, bounces up and onto the first rung. It happened to also be the first score at the Midwest regional.
At Boilermaker, the #1 seeded team (1730, Team Driven from Lee’s Summit, Missouri) was also the most effective scorer of keepers. I don’t recall the number of keepers they scored, but I do recall that they attempted a keeper every time they took the field and succeeded much more often than they failed. Their 10-1 qualifying record and their regional win with 234/1555 speak (loudly) to support Gary’s suspicion.