Southern Ontario VEX Robotics Championship Results

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This past Saturday the Southern Ontario VEX Robotics Championship was held at Governor Simcoe SS. The event was very interested as VEX Round Up definitely played out differently than it had at other tournaments.

Here’s a listing of all the award winners.

Excellence: 1114X - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON

Tournament Champion: 1114X - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON
Tournament Champion: 1114M - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON
Tournament Champion: 211A - Sir Winston Churchill SS, St. Catharines, ON

Tournament Finalists: 1509R - Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON
Tournament Finalists: 1503 - Westlane SS, Niagara Falls, ON
Tournament Finalists: 1241F - Rick Hansen SS, Mississauga, ON (Middle School Team)

Programming Skills Champion - 1114M - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON (35 Points)
Programming Skills 2nd Place - 2027 - Polar Bear Robotics, Toronto, ON (20 Points)
Programming Skills 2nd Place - 478 - Alexander Mackenzie HS, Richmond Hill, ON (20 Points)

Robot Skills Champion - 1509B - Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON (113 points)
Robot Skills 2nd Place - 1114X - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON (97 Points)

Build Award: 2809 - W.A.F.F.L.E.S., Kingston, ON
Amaze Award: 1509B - Ridley College, St. Catharines, ON
Think Award: 1114M - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON
Create Award: 1114Z - Governor Simcoe SS, St. Catharines, ON
Sportsmanship Award: 5331A - Grimsby SS, Grimsby, ON
Judges Award: 2386D - Burlington Central SS, Burlington, ON (Middle School Team)

I’ve attached the full event results.
Elimination Bracket.pdf (16.5 KB)
Elimination Results.pdf (24.5 KB)
Qualification Results.pdf (51 KB)
Rankings.pdf (26 KB)

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Here are the rankings from both the Robot and Programming Skills Challenges.
Robot Skills.pdf (21.7 KB)
Programming Skills.pdf (20.2 KB)

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Another great event, at least to watch on webcast. I’ve been following 1503 for awhile, and it was disappointing to hear about their radio problems, but they managed to find their way to a very cohesive #7 alliance and walk away Finalists again.

The number of tubes in the ladder at this event was STAGGERING. The game almost always came down to autonomous. There is a particular strategy I noticed during the finals that I’ve seen no teams ever do that would effectively slow down the opponents from filling the ladder with all the tubes. I won’t name it here for the sake of letting the game develop naturally, but I’m really surprised no one came up with it before.

I think the ideal robot for this game can get a high score in autonomous, can descore and ladder multiple rings, and can score single rings while either hoppering their own rings or being able to retrieve them from under the ladder.

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The number of tubes inside the ladder were indeed staggering. The first match of the quarter finals with alliance teams 4 and 5 was amazing…at the end there were only about 6 tubes not inside the ladder.

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The amount of tubes in the ladder certainly made for a lot more defense on goals and tubes themselves, rather than robots.

Autonomous just got 100X more important, and so did the ability to pick tubes out of the ladder.

Hmm…

-Nick

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So, win autonomous, hide rings under the ladder, and then high hang in 10 seconds or less?

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And score singles of your own.

I’m surprised fewer teams are putting two on top of opponent’s singles. This gets a net total of (-(-5) +5 +4) 14 points, and most descores of this combination grab all the rings so the net backswing is (-2 -(-5) -(-4)) 7 points. I mean, 90% of effective claws can’t make a stack of 2 easily, but still.

The other interesting note is that it becomes a lot harder to high hang with a ladder full of tubes.

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Unless you come and hang from the side of the ladder similar to how 478 did. Picture attached:
DSCN0978.JPG

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Insert comment about a controversial move I pulled preventing a team from hanging (or doing much of anything) here.

-Nick

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Controversial according to who?

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My team.

It kind of felt like a dirty play, as strategically awesome as it was.

Life goes on though.

-Nick

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It wasn’t dirty, it was as you said strategically awesome. had you not done that i don’t think, well actually, we still probably would have won. no offence to 6060B, 1114Z, and the other team whom which i have forgotten, but having two machines that only hang in you alliance is bound to get you eliminated. (when Your up against 3 scoring machines.)
I Still Think it was a great move. and a very, very amusing one to watch.

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Life goes on.

-Nick