T-VEX 9090C is proud to present out Toss Up World Championship robot!
We don’t tend to decorate our robot very often… but this year we decided that some painting was in order. (New metric for match difficulty: how much paint fell off the robot?)
This season we are in the Technology division, leaving the Math division for the first time in 4 seasons. (Yay for not traveling across the entire venue from our pits to our division)
Specs:
4 motor, 4 omni wheel, 1:1.6 drive
4 motor, 1:7 scissor lift
2 motor side roller intake
Primary Passive Lock for a high hang
Secondary backup passive lock for a low hang–about 1-2 inches off field
17 inch big ball dongle
Over 100 official Toss Up matches won
Looks great! I like the paint job on it. It’ll be interesting to see how much of it actually comes off during the matches, if any. Do you plan on doing a before and after pic? Best of luck to you guys at Worlds!
Really hoping for a match schedule that doesn’t include playing against 323Z.
I guess the one in this thread can be the before, and I’ll try to remember to post another picture after worlds. The paint in a couple of areas (hanging lock, for example) suffers quite a lot.
The original justification for mecanum wheels was to make programming skills easier. Perhaps they also have bit more traction to help with crossing the bump…
However, here are some of the reasons we switched to omni wheels before the US Open:
Dramatically faster turning with omnis
Set of 4 omnis are about .8 pounds lighter (better hang)
Yes, 9090C was dqd for modified PTCs. As a team in my region, I have gotten to know some of the more involved members who have put in the work to making a great robot, and I can tell you they were completely surprised to be caught with modified motors. It appears a coach snuck in the modded motors without the students knowing after having some stalling issues, but that should not discredit Tiger, Lucy and the rest of the team as I know they are truly good people and put honest work into making a competitive robot. I don’t know the whole story, but still want to congratulate 9090C for an amazing season, thank their members who helped us out for the rest of the tournament, and give them my condolences after facing such a crushing surprise. I wish 9090C another good season, and hope they can prevent things like this from happening again.
9090C’s disqualification was actually incredibly unfortunate - it was none of the student members’ fault. As a friend of him, I know that Tiger works incredibly hard on his robots, and definitely does not play illegally. It was sad that he got disqualified for something that wasn’t even his fault, after working on the robot for a year, and at the most important competition of the year.
From what I know, Tiger gets all of his motors from his mentors - he does directly get the motors from packaging. For worlds, he got his motors from his mentors ( as replacements in case motors broke during worlds ) and then placed them in a toolbox. One of his lift motors broke during a match, and he grabbed a motor out of the toolbox to replace, one that happened to be modified by the mentor who gave it to him. In short, it was absolutely not Tiger’s fault that his motor was modified.
There is a lot misinformation going around the forums regarding the motor testing that took place last week in Anaheim, as well as the types of modifications that we saw. We ask everyone to be very careful about spreading any second hand information, as the truth can get distorted very quickly. Frankly, I’m shocked at the amount of patently untrue information that’s being spread.
In terms of the specific case being discussed here, based on the failed primary and secondary testing, and discussions with the students and the mentors, we are certain that the right (albeit incredibly difficult) decision was made.
I am deeply sorry for the team of 9090C, as I consider them a role model for design, attitude and sportsmanship. I can’t imagine the feeling to be disqualified at such a prestigious tournament. I’m certainly positive that the students didn’t do this, but I can always be wrong. The members of this team work extremely hard in ensuring their robot is competitive with other teams. And in response to Karthik’s reply, what decision was made?
They were DQed from the tournament. All of their matches were recorded as a DQ and during alliance selection the announcers said that they were not able to be picked.
It’s a real shame something like this happened as they were, but possibly still, a good role model for many teams. Mistakes can be made on any level and it’s never good when a single person, possibly-do not know the full situation, brings down a whole team. It is no different in Vex, sports, group projects, or even in the real world. One person can ruin it for others. Simple as that. I do look forward to seeing them hopefully overcome this in the future.
Hope to compete with you (maybe against :p). Great bot!
Best of luck to you guys at Worlds!