Thursday, April 4, 2013

3rd Day, Here We Go.

The morning start off like Friday morning, another lost, but we win the rest. We are ranked number 10. We hope for the best.

Sigmacats (108) who are ranked number 6 were moved to number 5 due to Alliance 2 picking 3 (86 + 179). Sigmacats pick us as their first pick, then we pick team 141 (Wo-Bots). We head to the eliminations.

Eliminations were the hardest matches we played, we lost the first eliminations 135 to 140, we were shocked we had all the pints when the match ended, but apparently RealTime Scoring wasn't accurate. We don't give up, we play like monsters the next match, but we lost that one like the other match in the hundreds, Mars played a hard match. We didn't move on, but we go home with pride, we did what we came to do, give our best, and make us a big name. We leave with the Innovation and Control Award and with great pride for coming our of no where when all hope was a doubt in the fog.

We Came, We Saw, We Will Conquer.

2nd Day, More Like a Roller Coaster.

First match was an upset, we didn't win, taking a big toll on us. We come back and win our second match, the day gets better. Until our second lost, we forgot to turn on autonomous on the control board and lost by 6 points that match, (one 3 pointer autonomous shot).

We get back on our feet on a very important match for our team; one against three. One of our alliance were still in the machine shop and the other one only worked wired not wireless. Autonomous ended and our only alliance on the field were not running, we play. The blue alliance (us) had only one robot running (us). We play against heavy defenders, ones like 21 Combat, who are also our 2013 Orlando Regional Elimination Alliance. We won the match 36 to 32. And amazing match, one to never forget.

The day ended well, even with all that happened. Full court is a no-go. But we have one more day ahead.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The Journey Begins!

Set Time: 4:45am. Thursday, March 28, 2013.
Moose are running freely throughout nature, so are we. All signs point to fort. Lauderdale.
We get in our cars, we get a headcount, while half of us are barely awake, half of us have to make sure our moose is ready. "Bullwinkle 2.0" Is set, so are we. We head out; and so our ~3 hour - 4 hour drive begins to  a great regional.

We arrive, a smooth long ride that was. We unpack in the pits, we get ready. Changes will be made, we take out the lift mechanism to reduce wait from 119 to 104. We add two pneumatic pistons to change the angle of the shooter. Also add a CIMulater to the shooter for faster recovery. Full court will be a goal.

Our first practice round went good, except for the full court, it wasn't so good. But tweaking will be done. Our second practice round full court was amazing, and then another upset with full court on our third practice match.

The day ended well, we hope that full court will work for tomorrow's [Friday] qualifications. We clean the pit and get ready to head to the hotel.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

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