#meet1

What better way to spend our last meeting before Meet 1 then drive practice of course.  Based on practice, we expect to score 30-60 points in teleop for a 90-120 point team contribution for our Alliance.  

The rest of the meeting was spent gathering materials for the pits and going over inspection checklists.  Meet 1, here we come.

We have reached Meet 1 lockdown!

Following completion of the Meet 1 mechanical build and knocking off checklist items for Meet 1 we are as ready togo as can be expected.  We are able to perform all intended actions at this point of the season and have made some choices to hold back on select functionality for later builds to focus our resources.

The robot is looking GREAT and functioning very well.  We expect to be very competitive in Meet 1 competition and will determine steps forward based on observations of other teams in the area (as well as progress of teams on webcasts).

What started out as an . . . ‘interesting’ ... start to our 2016-2017 season, ended up a solid showing for our team.  

Match 1 began with an autonomous that ended with the pushing of a failed beacon.  It’s not suppose to turn green is it?  Later in the match, we were able to recover until losing connection with 50 seconds to go.  It was all down hill from there.  Match 1, L.  By the way, if a referee fails to come get a particle after an extended period, don’t throw it back on the field . . . penalty.

The good news is things got much better from there.  We ended the day with a 4-1 record (QP 8, RP 171, Rank 1).  We had a very solid day with autonomous and got a chance to switch things up throughout the day with different drivers and filed coaches.  That should be great experience for later in the season.  Matches were a bit more fun than expected as we got to whip around the field and score particles from a variety of places on the field.