Competition Week 4

(Part of) the strategy collective

If our planned schedule holds, this past weekend was event 2 of our 5 events in 6 weeks of madness for 2019. The past weekend was the PNW Glacier Peak district event, historically one of the most competitive events in PNW, and 2019 was no different. Every match was a chance to gain experience, learn more about the game, and strut our robot stuff. Overall our week was roughly similar week to last week, with a few major differences in what we prepared. (And you know, showing up to competition with a working bot...)

Competition Week 3

Pit set up, robot ready to go! ... ish...

This was quite a busy week for us all. We started Monday and Tuesday completing our final robot preparations during our 6-hour access period, and ended the week with our first competition of 2019 at the Sundome Arena in Yakima. 

Competition Week 2

Bots sitting, ready to go

For me, this was a very busy week. I actually didn't make it into the lab at all with work constraints, and had to follow along through our Slack channels. This week was more competition prep: drive practice, software tuning, breaking and fixing things as often as possible. On top of this, we are rapidly approaching our first competition, and needed to plan out our unbag session. This week we had our students plan and prep everything they would need to successfully tackle the numerous tasks required during our 6 hour access window.

Competition Week 1

All the practice space

Wahoo! We have a fast robot. This week we got our practice robot fully up and running, we broke it a few more times, and we got more software and drive team cycles. All of this preparation will continue to ensure reliability and performance for our first competition in 2 weeks time. Realistically, with packing, unbag time, and travel, we have just over 1 week to continue our program and make the best of our slow season. Fortunately, though our season may have run slow, this robot is fast. Over 2 days of drive practice, we have been able to consistently beat our baseline scoring cycles by over 3 seconds.