I sure hope that they were on the up-and-up with the refundable deposits and that they are in fact in a safe place. Otherwise this could (and should) go very badly for them.
Fresta featured in a USA Today video article:
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2018/04/26/tour-first-robotics-world-championship-detroit/551872002/
Finally met Ken. For all of 30 seconds! Was a busy week-end. Fresta had their best showing ever at world championships.
Good times...
Now for some sleep.
Here is a link to the New England District Championships live stream video.
Electroken's team, 230, is playing. I don't see a schedule of games yet so I don't know when they will actually be on the field.
230 is a world class robot. It should be fun to watch...
Thanks!!
End of day two. Only undefeated team at 10-1! Sitting g in 2nd place. Expecting to go undefeated through qualifying matches. Been a great competition so far. Super proud of these kids.
All you could possibly ask for!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWs22DHGwRloB613zOJ9UA/videos
Team 1731 is in the F1M1 and F1M2 matches as well as the semifinals.
We are the team that got the most cubes in auto (the 1st 15 seconds)
Gaelhawks did awesome this weekend as well.
How did you possibly get on alliances where you got the ranking point in auto EVERY TIME? We were with multiple teams that couldn't drive forward to give us that point.
Very true. With your scale and our autonomous and exchange, we'd be tough to beat. We had like 4 matches where I basically told our 3rd alliance partner to simply stay out of our way. (Hopefully in the other team's way)
We won lots of matches with only two decent bots.
Another big weekend! 4th in qualifications. Got picked by 3rd alliance, even though we told him that we were gonna say no. We wanted to save embarrassment. He picked us anyway (go figure). We said no. We formed our own alliance and won it all! Also won an award for our autonomous modes. It...