DEWBOT VI Indiana Robotics Invitational
16 and 17-July-2010 at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, IN. This is the first year we've been accepted into the Indiana Robotics Invitational (IRI)! IRI is the largest and most selective of all off-season competitions and is even larger than any FIRST Regional, with over 80 teams in attendance. Check out the event website.
Match Results
- Match 7
- 1640, 48, and 1732 lost a very close and hard fought match to 45, 294, and 51. We could have been more helpful (the kicker was rather anemic), but it was a great showing against international champions 294!
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Clem
- Match 15
- 1640, 148, and 1114 beat 1714, 118, and 1718 15 to 11--talk about seeding points! (We ranked 7th at one point today, Friday.) An excellent match with an excellent alliance against another fine triad: this is what IRI is all about!
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Clem
- Match 32
- 1640, 359, and 573 cleaned up an a fantastic 10 to 5 match against 171, 141, and 1592. We did excellently in this match: a virtual shut-out (one ball scored on us) of not one but two robots in their home zone. This impressed people. Well done, drive team! Also, great adaption the kicker being jammed: on-the-spot change in defensive strategy from block & clear to just block--very effectively. We couldn't get over the bump with the kicker stuck, but easily cleared the tunnel.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
- Match 40
- 1640, 2826, and 1675 beat 1058, 135, and 1038 in a close 10 to 8. Again, we played excellent defense, often with 3 robot attempting to score on us, 1058 very reliably from the mid zone. Wonderful drive team coordination--we know what's going on on the field, and we know how to deal with it.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
- Match 57
- We really are a tri-zone robot. We pretty much finished proving that is this match, when 1640, 2062, and 1625 shut down 1902, 1646, and 116 by 15 to 4. Now that's a score! A good deal (I lost track myself - Siri) of those were ours from the home zone. The kicker's still anemic, but that's ok from the home zone, and we're back to controlling it by and large. To round it off, some fantastic on-the-spot alliance communication allowed us to set a pick on our defender, pinning them (legally) against the wall so 1625 could score in our other goal.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
- Match 67
- Well, you can't win 'em all--especially when you're playing against international champions Team 67. 1640, 503, and 1529 lost a bitter 2 to 12 against 67, 888, and 70. On the bright side, we scored all the alliance goals that match--all three. On the more aphotic side, we also scored the penalty. As impressive as our new possessor is, the Lo Bar has taken quite a beating--we managed to push it down so far that we ate a ball. Rough match all around--we flickered in and out of communication so quickly and repeatedly that the wheels appeared to return to Medieval Europe for St. Vitus' Dance. We've really got to fix the Classmate problem.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
VEX at IRI
We were invited to come play Swept Away the classroom / TSA version of Clean Sweep at IRI. The rules are similar, but it's on a 8 x 8' field and there is a limit of the parts the robot can have.
Jack and Foster built a robot 2 weeks before the event, borrowing ideas from past robots (the shoulder and slide extension) and a football basket Foster had seen at the TSA National Championships. Jack then spent a few hours honing his drive skills before heading west.
The practice paid off. Representing Team 1640 (sab-BOT-age) Jack took the event with 11 wins 0 losses. "Chris is me" from FRC 2791 Shaker Robotics took second place.
Jack did very well driving the wheels off the robot to make an unblemished win streak and to score 49 points (out of a max of 60) in a single match.
People
There were 19 of us that went to IRI, some people wrote trip reports and they can be found on the DEWBOT VI IRI Trip Reports page (or click their names below).
Roboteers
- Alex - Pit / Scouting
- Andrew - / Human Player / Pit / Scouting
- Ben - Programming
- Carley - Driver / Mentor Match Coach
- Doug - Pit
- Heather - Scouting / Pit
- Jen - Scouting / Head Cheerleader
- Jack - VEX Driver & Mechanic
- Matt - Pit
- Nicole - Scouting
- Sasha - Operator / Pit
- Tony - Pit
Mentors
- Faith - Tour Manager - Mentor Match Human Player
- Clem - Head Mentor / Pit / Coach / Mentor Match Driver
- Foster / VEX Event /Mentor Match Human Player
- John - Pit Manager
- Rita - Mentor Match Human Player / Team Dinner Planning
- Rizzo - Referee / Mentor Match Human Player & Driver
- Siri - Scout Team Management / Coach / Mentor Match Operator
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