Who has successfully THROWN ringers on to the rack yet?

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#80

The HP for Chop Shop 166 is wicked awesome. She must have practiced an hour every day leading up to the BMR. Excellent technique.

#81

You know what’s interesting?

She scored once at GSR.

She scored seven total at Boilermaker (including practice matches).

She didn’t practice at all between GSR and Boilermaker. She only practiced before GSR.

It was great watching human players change the way they throw the tubes after a day’s worth of watching our human player.

#82

Exactly how does she throw it?

#83

She would hold it with one hand on the inside of the tube, one on the outside. She’d use whatever hand was on the inside to give the tube a spin and forward thrust, and whichever hand was on the outside would counteract the right hand and give it some stability, accuracy, and more spin.

I, personally, would hold it with my dominant (right) hand on the inside, and my left on the outside. To start, I’d have my right hand closer to me (on the inside of the tube, and my left hand farther away (on the outside of the tube) so the tube is hanging over my head. I’d quickly rotate my hands counter-clockwise to give the tube spin, and use my arms to throw it forward. I’m not exactly which hand is where, but that’s how I would do it.

What’s nice about this throw is that it gives the tube an incredible spin and makes it easy for the human player to get the tube over the driver’s station. It must be done above the human player’s head.

I could probably come up with a diagram or something to help explaining it.

#84

lol i don’t even have to explain myself.

yeah i used my dominant hand (right) on the inside. I kind of pinched the outside of the tube with my left hand and sort of whipped it.

But seriously that first day was the most incredible day ever.

2 in a row. ha-cha!

#85

Interesting, i think i’ve tried a similar throw, assuming i understand it correctly, but i found that there is too much spin generated and the tube curves leading to decreased accuracy. Right now i use my dominant right hand on the outside of the tube on the back side and my left hand on the left outer part of the tube. I then use my shoulders and a flick of my wrist to generate rotation. The left hand is able to guide it after release to an extent and it minimizes curve and generally glides straight, thus improving accuracy. But then again i guess it really just depends on the human player and what they feel most comfortable with.

#86

At Wisconsin I made one on the rack, one on our robot (not fun…) and popped one after hit it the top of the wall (embarressing, but it was just a practice match).

Now, I just throw them short of the rack near our robot to pick up. We decided that our robot has a much better percentage at making it than I do.

#87

I’m the driver/human player for team 846. In the 2nd round of our day, I threw a ringer onto the top level of the rack. I recall the announcer said something along the lines of me being the second one to do so that day.

#88

Throwing ringers wasn’t a good idea for us. We have BAD aim when it comes to that

#89

http://www.chantillyrobotics.com/photo_gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=4022&g2_serialNumber=1

thats how u throw a tube

#90

http://public.fotki.com/CrazyKate/first/build_season_021807/dsc06540.html

http://public.fotki.com/CrazyKate/first/build_season_021807/dsc06517.html

http://public.fotki.com/CrazyKate/first/build_season_021807/dsc06544.html

Here’s a few pictures of our human player(166) practicing.

#91

nice pictures of my butt tiff :stuck_out_tongue:

#92

At Buckeye, there have been at least 2 successful throws… pretty nifty. :cool:

#93

Throughout VCU and and the first day of Peachtree, I think our human player scored four ringers. Then we had our arm working well and realized that we were faster picking up tubes when our human player fed it to our robot over the wall. So then, we had to stop throwing them over.

But our human player ended up getting really good at throwing them. He’s gotten a lot on during our practice field sessions. In fact, on the practice field one time, he scored a ringer, and then on the next one, he put another ringer over it, effectively de-scoring it. But at least it was only a practice match.

#94

My team’s human player stuck two on the rack today at Buckeye… I also saw one other.

#95

At SVR, it seemed to happen a few times. I even saw a team or two practicing on the practice rack in the pits.

A lot of ringers went on top of the rack (or into the rack) and off the field, though (but the refs put them back).

#96

Our Human player Jordan McRay was able to get 3 ringers on. 1 in practice and 2 during qualifying matches.

#97

Our Human player has scored 4 on the rack

#98

There were many thrown onto the rack in Waterloo. In particular, I think it was the human player from 1503 (? correct me if I’m wrong) who got two on the rack on Friday and at least another two or three today.

#99

Yes, the 1503 human player is scarily good at throwing ringers onto the rack, to the point where it’s a significant competitive advantage. There was at least one match where the ringer he scored actually won the match for them. And yes, there were at least a couple other human players who managed to get one or two on - by late Saturday, you could hear the disbelief in Paul Copioli’s voice as he announced “…and ANOTHER ringer scored by the human player?”.