Ohio Competition

VEX Robotics Competition Discussion VRC > Nothing But Net (15/16)
#1

Today, we went to our first event of the season (3rd event in Ohio, I think). It was held at North Union High School. We went in, expecting to see only a few shooting robots. Almost all of the robots had a launcher, so we were surprised; we didn’t expect Ohio to be this ready at such an early competition. We had fun with everything, and a lot of things went wonderfully (we had a solo 130 point match at one point). Our last qualification match was a 196 point match.

We placed 14th and were chosen by the 4th seed. The score was 211-141 for one semifinal match - the highest for the day. We lost at the finals, losing to the 2nd seed (159-156, 157-203, 159-180, or something like that). It was a great day. The results haven’t been posted yet, so I will probably ask into that if it’s not posted soon.

We have a few videos from the day, so we will upload them to YouTube as soon as we can (probably within a week).

Feel free to ask questions if you have any.

#2

Wow that truly is amazing for your first match. Do you have a lift?

#3

Wow, 211-141 is pretty sweet. I too am wondering if you have a lift and whether you used it or if it was just some good playing/shooting. :smiley:

#4

Same here in our last competition we were only able to score a max of 174, but our other alliance partners together scored 188.

#5

No we do not have a lift. I saw 2 lifting mechanisms at the competition, but unfortunately, I didn’t see any successful elevations. Maybe next time will be better;)

In the finals, we changed our strategy to go out in the field first before driver loads. That was an interesting change; we only scored in the 150s (or perhaps that was because our opponent was too good :D).

I didn’t see very much pushing; it was more offensive than defensive.

#6

interesting, can’t wait to see vids

#7

I would have thought you would end up with higher scores trying to clear the field before shooting driver control loads (as long as you have a decent alliance partner). Quite Interesting that this resulted in lower scores.

#8

Speaking of alliance partners, how good was ur alliance partner.

#9

We had an agreement with the 2nd seed, but we were picked by the 4th seed. I would say they were “good” (with “excellent” reserved for the 2nd seed). The 2nd seed got 2 200+ scores (203 and 207 I think) and we got 1 211 score, so it might be that we were almost equal.

Autonomous started working decently for us (3/4 balls most of the time) and our alliance was getting 2/3 in, too. However, finals matches 2 and 3 had the 2nd seed consistenly scoring 7 or so balls in the net. I didn’t think autonomous would affect that much, but it took a good hit on our feelings :stuck_out_tongue:

EDIT: My points are attached. We were 1st in SP, 2nd in OPR, and 2nd from last in DPR :smiley: We didn’t care about SPs in the last match :slight_smile:

Kudos to VexDB

In the 113 point match, we accidentally activated programming skills for the last 30 or so seconds :smiley:

#10