Staying strong in these times of change as we are also a Vertically challenged robot (in a good way). We make limbo obsolete.
reporting in to bring my support for the left handedā¦ I mean low bar challenged teams. 
Proud member of #TeamTall!
#TeamTall #ThinkTall #TallPower #PowertotheTalls #ImTallYoureNOT #GetShorty
Hereās our entry to this Support Group I startedā¦ a pretty-tall 2016 KNIGHTmareā¦
APOLOGIES for the messy shop-area, I usually run a much tighter ship but we were cranking to finish TWO twin bots before Bag/Tag Dayā¦ a first for usā¦
Any comments or input are welcomeā¦ weāre busy iterating on the practice bot for the next two weeksā¦ expecting to show more at Alamoā¦
CONGRATS to the Bronc Botz student team membersā¦ Iām a proud coachā¦ 
āMichael Blake
Should reports on successful low-bar challenged robots be posted here to cheer up the support group, or do they deserve their own thread?
Team 1876 BeachBotics just scored 2 high goals and scaled in a dominant performance during their first Week 0.5 match at Palmetto. Or at least I think it was their very tall robotā¦livestream was a little fuzzy. 
Post these successes HERE!
We need to keep the movement goingā¦
āMichael Blake
And for their next trick, 1876 scales with a ball on-board, and then shoots a high goal while itās hanging from the rung! :yikes:
Iām in love with this robot.
Wouldnāt that be illegal as they are not in contact with the opponentās courtyard carpet?
EDIT: My bad! I missed the part in G39 where it says you can be in contact with the opponents TOWER and still launch a BOULDER.
Lol Jared! (Internet LIES? Never) If itās on the netā¦It Must Be Absolutely TRUE!
That poll does not even list a response from me, as when it came out I was absolutely dead set against our team making it all fit in that expected teeny tiny package (it was giving me absolute nightmares during what little sleep I was getting in weeks 1 & 2 just trying to figure out how you could squeeze all that you needed to into those very little spaces (and still work in them later that is), and do most everything in the game if absolutely forced to).
But we did, and we have all kinds of space left (at least on our boulder collecting/shooting end, even after handling low bar and all the other defenses, and shooting high/low over anything in front of us up to 4ā~9" tall or so, plus scaling the tower via the ever historic Team 60 PTO.
It sure made it a long build season though. Waaaaaaaay too much prototyping! Not enough actual robot building early enough. I think they built 4 robots in the time frameā¦And have 1.75 to show for it currently.
Ohhhhhhh, TY for the addition. I missed that built in capability. A last second soft shot! (Our billboard is on the PTO Arm and is against the tower vertically during the scale, shooter is wide open, arc is right, height is right).
But, the first one that misses (bouncing it high/low off the tower or their own robot or the bar), and lands their boulder in another alliance members robot hanging on bar or parked on the batter (that already has a boulder in it), may end many of those last second attempts. Hard lessons may be learned.
It would be a killer to be ahead by a few points in the match, and take a penalty at the last moment due to that, and lose RPās or worse Playoff matches. Hero to zero in 1 press of a button and a bounce.
Competition Week 1 revealsā¦
Need MORE members in the support groupā¦ CHIME IN!!
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āMichael Blake
WHAT are some of the LESS obvious advantages to being Low-Bar Challenged in FIRST Stronghold?
āMichael Blake
We are a low bar (and discovered this was also most defenses 
) challenged robot, and we scored 4 high goals in a qualifying match, and I canāt remember how many we scored in our second quarterfinal match, 4 or 5, but we still got picked 8th overall!
Just an update for the low bar challenged group. How have you been doing so far?
2502 won northern lights. We did 7 or 8 cycles during our first quarter finals match, and did 6 for every other elimination match.
So is team 2944!
(Had to quote because the team numbers were too close for me not to lol)
Team 217 chiming in to join this group! We have been having some great success with a tall bot!
We were 2nd overall pick at the Buckeye Regional (but unfortunately our RoboRio became extremely damaged during our second quarterfinal match). We did manage to score (I believe) 7 high goals in one match! We also scored 70 points individually in another!
Go #TeamTall!
Played with 254, trust me they have no trouble with it, nore did 1678 that giant bot flattens quite well
We played our first event in St Joe and the low bar thing wasnāt an issue. 95% of the robots were low bar. But we were a tall robot that was blind, none of our cameras worked until day 2. We got one working for 1/2 of a match, but then the CF broke the lens out of our camera.
The 2nd day thoughā¦ both cameras working, so we could shoot finally. We made 7 shots in 1 matches and two of the highest scores during quals were from us and our alliance partners.
We only missed 2 shots on that 2nd day. One went straight through from one side to the other and the other one was just rushed. One of the shots even had a robot slam into us as we were shooting breaking one of our arms off (causing us a foul) but we made the shot. 
Being tall is nice. We have our climb done except for some minor testing and look forward to unleashing the āSwiss Army Beastā at Lansing.