Ravi Gaddipati's blog

Today was an important day for the team. Not only did competition begin today, but we finished our application for the Chairman's Award. Anna and Audrey represented our team excellently in the presentation this morning, supplementing our video and essay to show what our team is about. During the qualifying matches, our robot did great. Although there was some trouble with the shooter in our first match, we fixed it quickly and got it working for our next match. The robot was still jittery moving around, but it did not affect our game too much. Our robot has scored well in Autonomous, Controlled, and Coopertition, putting us in fourth place at the end of the day.

The next day, qualification matches continued. At the end of the matches, we placed in 5th seed, and picked alliances. RMR662 picked teams 3172 and 1764. Our first elminiation match was a rousing success, our alliance was able to score a high number of points while 662 played defense. Unfortunatly, we were not able to win the next match and we were eliminated.

Rocky Mountain Robotics recieved the creativity award againm in addition to the one from Kansas City.

The elimination match results are shown below:

After a long bus ride, Cougars Gone Wired from Coronado High School and Rocky Mountain Robotics were excited to begin our first regional of the season. After Special Projects set up the pit, manipulator got to work on finishing our ball launcher. Steve Oltrogge of Manipulator, Karen Orton of Drive Train, and their teams worked hard to finish the manipulator and pass inspection while satisfying weight requirements. Though we did not get a chance to participate in a practice match the first day, we were able to validate the function of the entire system on the practice field. Rocky Mountain Robotics was able to compete in practice matches the second day, and gave us the oppurtunity to have several team members try their hand at driving. After overcoming some difficulties such as the drive shaft shearing, we are confident for the Colorado Regional.

At the end of the day, our final seed was 25th. Rocky Mountain Robotics won the creativity award at Kansas City, and received the experience necessary to win at the Colorado Regional.