Hello vex forum. Today Georgia state championship has just been concluded. 78 teams demonstrated surprising performance and the battle is more exciting than any videos I have ever seen. We are team 3921B and we won five qfs out of six. At the end of the qualification rounds we ranked 8 out of 78 robots. However we are a relatively new team and do not have many expers going around and scouting, so we focused too much on rankings while selecting partners. If we had a chance we really could have made better choice, but I believe that is the same for everyone.
We teamed up with 1961B and 1900R, and ended up stopping at quarterfinal. Since we didn’t have much time to take care of other qualifying ways, like skills competition, we did not qualify for world championship this year. However we do wanna congratulate all the teams that did. Including the champion teams: 1264B, 675D and 5203.
We did shoot videos and I believe plenty of videos should be online in these days. We will gradually upload these and let you see the competition.
As the season concludes for us, we are going to plan a final reveal on the forum to memorize our team’s hard work. Here are basic informations for our robot. Pictures will be posted in the next few days.
Base:4 motor 1:1, omni wheels on the front.
Lift: 4 motor 1:5 8 bar lift with rubber band assist
Intake: 2 speed motor side rollers, 599D’s 2011 design, modified to suit our robot
Great Job Guys. It’s got a bit of a learning curve with the scouting and all, but I am sure you guys can go back next year and make it far. Thanks for picking our B team and being great alliance members for them.
Thank you so much. We got started kind of late this season and it is already a blessing that we can go this far and meet you awesome teams. And yes, we will never ever forget your awesome scouting presenter Amanda. You guys were completely awesome being the finalist!
Just to clarify it was actually 675A not 675D that won the tournament. Team 675E and 675D lost in the semi-finals, but thank you for recognizing us!
Sorry that was my mistake. You robodragons rocked the tournament and i will never forget our qualification round against your E team. Man, never saw that type of stash battle even in videos. Too many things to memorize. Congratulations to all your good work and good luck in the world tournament.
I posted the first round of the finals to my youtube page… It can be found here GA State VEX Final Round 1 - YouTube
Congrats to all the teams at the competition! Everyone did great, and hope to see a ton of GA teams at worlds! 
Them dongles on the blue robot. They look familiar. 
You’ll have to take that up The Walker School team 4495A
I guess you could take it as a compliment haha
They won the design award right? That is a pretty cool robot with shocking programming skills.
And I know jalen has already posted the finals. I am just posting the links here.
No offense but isn’t first 5 seconds the most important for a defense bot? Wouldn’t a hanging auton literally be the worst auton from a strategy stand point?
There are different defense robots. Some cover the goal, some cover the goal zone. I prefer this one because how it actually blocks the other robot completely in the hanging zone for so long. Of course you can view it critically, but I believe for the second final it definitely did great. Also when robots are basically at the same level, the auton bonus can definitely be the key factor. Based on the tournament I have been to, my team won all the matches in which they received the auton bonus. So I think a guaranteed auton win is not weak.
I understand where Tabor is coming from, but in this situation I think the hanging auton was a plus. If i counted correctly, blue would have won auton bonus if the elevator robot didn’t hang. Their defense strategy is not really normal for a bot that can only hang and manipulate big balls, but it seemed pretty effective when they spot the top robot on the other team and try to isolate it. When we went against Ola (elevator bot) they did a great job of minimizing our presence. Personally, I think in the final the blue team should have replaced 1961C with Walker School for their second round simply because Ola was going to be strictly defensive and Walker had a catapult to somewhat combat their defense with across the field shots… That is if they decided to guard Walker anyways.
Either way, both teams did great and Georgia will be well represented at Worlds. I hope to see all of them there and good luck to all Worlds attendees.
They should look familiar lol :p. When we see something we like, we aren’t afraid to use it.
Thanks for the kind words. We did in fact win the design award, and we came in second in programming skills with a score of 42. However, we scored as high as 64 in practice, but could not achieve that at state due to a busted encoder. We hope to be consistently upwards of 65 by nationals.
The first finals match wasn’t our greatest match, we were too focused on trying to score the buckies after red’s impressive autonomous, which allowed them to play defense. If you want to see what our robot is fully capable of check out this video of our third semifinal match at state:
We are the blue robot that starts in the hanging zone with the top-roller intake.
Oh, seems that wolverines have already uploaded the videos. After watching the videos I found out what we did wrong. Our plan is to rely on our hanging zone stashing auton to win the autonomous, and then play defense. But we kept playing defense eventhough we lost the autonomous. And obvousely we shut down for twenty seconds in the second match.
Also, do you have the qualification number 10? As I can recall it was 675E, 4495A vs. 7878T, 3921B. If you do I would like to see that, because that was so close.
I believe this is what you are looking for. This is 4495C and 675E vs. 3921B and 7878T
Yes exactly!!! We started really rough, almost losing hope, but at the last five seconds we slid in three buckies and 7878T picked up two large balls, and that’s how we won by three pionts. So exciting.
It actually blocked us 1961-C… but yes that was a great strategy, he pissed my driver off quite well
This strategy was actually discussed but the Walker school had actually broken during the first round of finals, so they had to sit out to fix there robot 