Hello everyone,
Team 3309A is proud to reveal their newest robot, Gladiator! Gladiator has competed well in many Southern California competitions, and we look forward to the U.S. Championship and State competitions.
Stats:
6 motor high speed drive
4 motor catapult
1 motor roller intake, 1 motor release mechanism
Robot Skills: 227
Programming Skills: 160
Very impressive reveal video! High quality, and i love the viewing angles. What kind of motors do you use on the catapult? So you use a potentiometer?
Super Cool Robot!
Love the video style! Kudos to the director and everyone who worked on it.
We use regular 393 motors on our catapult, geared for torque. We do not use a potentiometer, instead we use two limit switches: one at the top of the catapult and one at the bottom.
Thank you for the compliments!
Looks like they are.
I love the reveal, but do you have any videos of it just shooting? I can’t really get a good idea of its actual abilities from just this video.
Also, how good at holding the ball is that strapping on the arm. A major problem that I’ve noticed with catapults is that the ball miss the arm when the intake tries to drop it in, and falls off of the robot.
I do not have a video currently, but I will post one as soon as I have the chance.
The ball always falls into our ball cup from our intake. We used to have the same problem you described, until we added little polycarbonate walls around the loading area of our catapult.
You guys always have fantastic robots, and I’ve had a lot of fun competing with your teams. You deserve to be at State, and I’m sure you will qualify for Worlds again this year. Good luck!
I don’t think that would be the case.
Love Aero Chord; great song choice! Nice simple and effective robot design! I love it!
i dont usually respond to reveals, but this is probably the best photography ive seen in a reveal
+1
Sorry I’m a little late, but no, we have not qualified for State yet. However, we have a couple more chances to qualify and we are positive that one of them will get us there.
Well, good luck with your future competitions. You have a fantastic design approach and the video is enjoyable!
Sorry to make you wait so long, but we finally found a video from our most recent competition on December 22. We uploaded our robot skills run where we scored 227 points to win the skills competition.
Did you have 4 people at the field? I saw 2 drivers and 2 loaders
And that would be illegal per Karthiks ruling Answered: Skills loading - VRC > Nothing But Net (15/16) - VEX Forum
I see 2 loaders, and one viewer. Doesn’t look illegal to me.
Yes we did have four people on the field. We did not realize this would be a problem, the fourth member was only there to make loading a little easier. We will stick with three members in our future skills runs. Thank you for letting us know.
You know, maybe you should watch through the whole video before you start disproving other people. 
You know, maybe you should answer back politely.