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Qualifer 3 – Meeting Entry

by FTC 9656 Omega, posted in Binder, Meeting Entries, Rover Ruckus (2018-19)

Date: 1/12/19
Time: 7:00-6:00
Attendance: Trinity, Tommy, Rebecca, Nidhir, Ananya, Sriteja

Plans/Goals

  • This is our last chance to advance to regionals, either through actually winning or earning the Inspire Award, but we need to actually have fun
  • Don’t stress about too much about advancing
  • Last time we put too much pressure on ourselves and couldn’t enjoy being at the competition
  • We barely have any prep time, so we likely won’t do too well anyways

What Was Accomplished

  • We got nominated for a lot of awards and became a Alliance Captain, which was awesome!
  • 3rd in Connect
  • 2nd in Control
  • 2nd in Inspire
  • 2nd in Innovate
  • 1st in Think
  • Placed 4th out of 16 in elimination rounds
  • 3rd seed alliance captain
  • Won 4 qualification matches, lost 1
  • Made it to finals
  • We got a lottery ticket, giving us a 12/17 chance to qualify to regionals
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Qualifier 3 – Berean Christian High School, Walnut Creek

by FTC 9656 Omega, posted in Rover Ruckus (2018-19), Updates

Yesterday our team was notified that a spot had opened up at the Walnut Creek Qualifier that was going to be held the following day. After deliberating, we decided to go just for fun, as a last hurrah before officially going offseason. We were able to pull together a skeleton crew of 6 members.

This qualifier ended up being a major milestone for our team! Our robot performed consistently and scored well for our alliance partners–well enough to be 4th seed (4th place) in the qualification rounds. This put us in a position to select our alliance partner for the semifinals, and have a chance at getting into finals and thus qualifying for regionals.

After advancing through the semi-finals, Omega unfortunately lost the extremely close final, but nevertheless we are proud of getting this far–the farthest we’ve ever gone in Omega history.

We won the following awards:

  • Finalist Alliance Captain
  • Think Award
  • Inspire Award, 1st Runner Up
  • Control Award, 1st Runner Up
  • Connect Award, 2nd Runner Up

We are so proud of our entire team for working hard to constantly improve the robot and code, specifically: Nidhir Guggilla (Captain), Justin Do (Co-Captain), Tommy Vo Tran (Programming Lead), Trinity Chen (Mechanical Lead), and our mentor, Kevin, who was very busy that day but still showed up in support. We would also like to thank our parents for supporting us in this last-minute endeavor and throughout the season. Lastly, we would like to thank our semi-finals and finals alliance partner, Team Future 14473.

Next stop: Regionals! (If we are lucky and win the lottery!)

Pictures are below.

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Qualifier 1 – American High School

by FTC 9656 Omega, posted in Rover Ruckus (2018-19), Updates

This past Saturday, Omega went to our first qualifier of the season. It was hosted at American High School, in Fremont, CA on December 8, 2018. The game this season is Rover Ruckus, and we had a pretty decent robot built and programmed. However, we had connection and autonomous issues, which resulted in a ranking of 14th place. Fortunately, lots of things went right–for example, our lift and intakes worked correctly most of the time, in addition to our planned presentation in front of the judges. For our next qualifier, we plan to rebuild and fix the problems we had in our first competition! Below is a gallery of some pictures from the event.

First Qualifier: Meeting Entry

by FTC 9656 Omega, posted in Meeting Entries, Rover Ruckus (2018-19)

qualifier 1 part 1 rover ruckus
qualifier 1 part 2 rover ruckus

First Qualifier

Date: 12/8/18

Time: 3:20-6:00

Attendance: Nidhir, Trinity, Josephine, Kathy, Ananya, Tommy, Jonathan, Rebecca, Rohan, Afra, Shivani, Sriteja, Justin

 

Plans/Goals

  • We hope to win at least one judged award, and get to eliminations.

 

What Was Accomplished

  • By Qualification Match 3 we had a reliable delatch auto and reliably could latch in endgame, having a reliable 80 point solo.
  • We ranked 14th out of 16th, going 1-4 overall and winning Qualification Match 3.
  • Compared to last year, we were able to pass robot inspection and field inspection significantly quicker, and our judge’s interview went significantly quicker.

 

Notes/Additional Information

  • The robot suffered disconnection issues in two out of the five qualification matches that we played. Unfortunately, those disconnects occured in the two matches with low scores (winning alliance scored around 60 points), which we could have won.
  • Our latch mechanism broke in match 4, and was quickly repaired.
  • A temporary disconnect cause the arm to run full power into the drivetrain, basically causing it to break its own mounting system.

 

Reflection/Takeaways

  • Compared to our last qualifier nearly a year ago, there were several parts which were significant improvements.
  • Robot Inspection and Field Inspection were passed quickly because we sized the robot ahead of time and went down the checklist, and added stickers and team numbers.
  • The Judging interview, even though it was only practiced once before going in, went relatively smoothly. However, several mistakes were made during the judge’s interview. Even though we brought props to the competition, we didn’t actually bring it into the room to show the Judge’s. Also, some members while describing certain mechanisms of the robot didn’t actually point it out, leaving the judge’s somewhat confused. However, by pointing out CAD drawings from the notebook, we were able to somewhat counteract this issue.

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