DEWBOT VI Bridgewater Battle
DEWBOT VI participated in the 2nd Bridgewater Raritan Battle Royale (BR)2 at Bridgewater-Raritan High School in Bridgewater, NJ on 29-May-2010. Team 1640 received the competition's Engineering Excellence Award for DEWBOT's unique, multi-mode pivot drive-train and the mirror mounted to find balls hidden behind the bumps. 1640 placed 12th out of 21 teams in the qualifying matches and was selected by the 2nd Alliance (2753 Overdrive & 1279 Cold Fusion). We were eliminated in the semifinals.
Check out the event website here.
There was also a large VEX event held concurrently at this location playing Round Up, the new 2010-2011 game.
Contents
Matches
Qualifying Matches
Play-off Matches
Who was there
Students: Paul, Ben R, Carly, Matt, Douglas, Jen, Andrew, Kenneth
Mentors: Mike Rizzo, Heather McKown, John Stumpo, Faith & Clem McKown
Parents: Alex Klufas
- Drivers: Carly & Paul
- Operators: Paul & Jen
- Coach: Clem McKown
- Human Player: Andrew
- Administrator: Faith McKown
- Pit Captain: Douglas
- Pit Mentors: John Stumpo & Heather McKown
- Scouts: Ben R. & Carly
Problems Encountered
Post-Mortem
Bridgewater Raritan Battle Royale Photo Gallery
Jen & Andrew installing the mirror stops
Jen, Douglas & Andrew installing mirror
DEWBOT VI's mirror
John Stumpo in pit
Paul in pit
Paul, Clem McKown, Andrew & Jen queued for match Q4
Carly, Kenneth & Ben R scouting from the stands
Drive team for Q7, Jen Carly, Andrew & Clem McKown, waiting through autonomous
John Stumpo, Heather McKown, Jen & Ben R in the stands
Andrew handling the trident
a ball on the trident
and the ball is on the return rails
Mike Rizzo...
...or is that Michael Rizzo?
reinstalling the lost steering chain
the chain gang at work
replacing the kicker elastics...
...is not as easy as it looks
robot in autonomous with mirror uo
leaving the field after a match
75 playing a tough defense - we didn't put ourselves in the goal
scoring anyway
view of the pit
Queuing up for the next match
Engineering Excellence Award
Jen
Team (Jen & Mike Rizzo missing - Clem McKown taking the picture)
