Our team has qualified for the Michigan State Championships as a Rookie Team. While we have been the best vault bot at both of our regular season competitions the students on my team asked me if we were the best vault bot in the state. Through 2 competitions we have a total of 1005 Vault Points. Anyone know if there is a way to find out the answer to their question?
4087 is definitely the best vault bot in the south, and the only team that comes close is 7179.
I remember Adam Heard saying the bots that are good at the scale would be the same ones who can do the exchange extremely efficiently. At the end of week 6, this statement is entirely true in my experience.
I love this database written by Caleb Sykes. Should give you a good idea just where your team falls in the world in most statistical categories. Looks like you guys rank 109 in the world and 24th in FIM in average vault points at your week 4 event. Not too shabby for a rookie team!
I think 708 is one of the best vault bots in MAR, other strong canidates are 747 and 25 (the latter had the best vault points at DCMP but was probably a top 3 scale bot.).
We would like to throw our hat into the ring for West
we have lead two regionals now in vault play and can put up numbers similar to 7179.
Matches
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Im going to have to disagree with that one. While there are some good “Everything” bots, the teams that I see doing the scale are usually incredibly slow at the vault. I attribute that to their lack of practice though. I think a vault bot will always be a better vault bot because that’s their expertise. Just my experience in FiM.
I think as a general rule this is true. However in Colorado 4944 just dominates in terms of cubes in the vault.
Is it actually valuable to just be a good Vault bot without elite Switch abilities as well? If not, this thread has the important question and answers.
2976 is the best vault/switch bot in PNW by a long shot.
4944 is definitely the best vault bot in Colorado. I’m excited to see them compete in the Championship!
On the one or two occasions where my team has played vault/our switch (we usually do scale) we’ve done quite well. That being said, a team designed for max efficiency on the vault will probably outplay most scale bots, if only due to driver practice.
So going into this the Rookie Season we wanted to do one thing REALLY well and build other functionality that can contribute the maximum amount of points for our alliance.
Auton: Switch Auton = 15 points
Teleop: 9 cubes X 5 points = 45 points + 30 Points for Levitate
Teleop: additional cubes past 9 into our Switch = ? additional points
Teleop: we do not approach the scale at all = no penalties
End Game: we climb with a 90% success rate = 30 points
Our contribution by ourselves to the Alliance= 120 Points
First Comp Results (Lansing):
#1 in Vault = 485 points
#5 in Climb Park = 710 points
Second Pick of 5th Alliance lost in Semi-Finals
Second Comp Results (LakeView):
#1 in Vault = 520 points
#4 in Climb Park = 725 points
Second Pick of 8th Alliance lost in the Quarters
Awarded the All-Star Rookie Award
Going to Michigan State Championships!! Both Team and Bot Qualified.
Right, but in my post I specifically highlight teams with high scale efficiency. This usually correlates to efficient cube intaking/acquiring, which is probably the biggest factor holding teams back from being great at the exchange.
5913, 3276, and 3102 are among the best Switch/Vault dedicated robots in Minnesota.
For Peachtree Vault:
4941 RoboBibb
Albany: 405
Columbus: 515
District champs: 525 (Missed perfect vault for quals by 3 cubes)
From the blue alliance i didn’t see an overall better average for vault in the Peachtree district. We can only hope to improve at Houston!
We certainly appreciate your recognition! Our stats speak for themselves, but unfortunately it seems we shot ourselves in the foot being a back to back 3rd seed alliance captain.
Our strategy changed between regionals from a pure vault and home switch focus to playing the opponent switch in the first minute or so.
What I would give to see my kiddos compete in Houston…
1011 is the best in Arizona hands down.
I remember I disagreed originally. I was wrong.
We had to cosplay as a vault/switch bot in a QF match at PCH Champs this weekend. Went pretty well for something we never practiced doing.
Something that we talked about on the way to regionals was how if you are a dedicated switch/exchange bot, your chances of going to Champs might actually be lower than a average scale bot. This is because the first couple of seeds usually pick a scale bot, and the mid/bottom seeds pick a switch bot just because thats usually the better robot left. That leads to your chances of being eliminated higher just because you are a lower seed alliance. Not sure if this is true/backed up by data.