We made it to the state championships this weekend along with 102 other teams. We started our weekend off great. We play 12 qualification matches to find out what teams move on the the finals. There are 16 alliances of three teams each. Three elimination rounds and then the finals between the two best teams. That is a lot of robotics and a lot of emotion. It is a wonderful weekend of inspiring future STEM students to keep going. Here is an example of the game this year. We are team 107.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snNPSlW0AhQ
We were 10th overall after the first day and 5 matches. This is a really great place to be. We finished 10th on Friday after 10 matches. Friday night we got really bad news our gearbox broke. We had spare parts so it wasn't that bad, or so we thought. They were working on the gearbox when I left on Friday night. I expected to come back on Saturday morning and see the robot back up and running. Saturday morning we put the rebuilt gearbox on the robot but it wasn't working properly. We tried adapting a different gearbox to the robot but we had many different issues that we didn't have time to fix. We went out and showed up for our last match thinking our weekend was done. We had no gearbox so we couldn't play the game. We took one last chance and put the gearbox back on the robot and adjusted things again. IT WAS WORKING!!!! We took the robot to the practice field and ran it through the paces. It was working just as good as before. We could play the game. We were ranked 15 going into alliance selections. We knew we had earned a spot to play in the finals but now we could actually participate.
There are 16 alliances that start in the playoffs. Each alliance has three teams. The format for this year is every team plays two matches and the 8 teams with the highest average scores move on. We played our two matches and waited to see if we made it to the quarter finals. We were in eighth place with 6 matches to play. Each team played and we were still in eight. One after one they went and we were in eight place. Then it was all done and we were still in eight place. We made it to the quarter finals. We were just happy to be playing the game. We move on with the highest eight teams. This round was the same as the last. Each alliance plays two rounds and the four teams with the highest average scores move on. We played our first round of matches and at the end of the first round we were in third place. We were starting to get excited we had done well enough that if we played the same match again we could move on to the semi-finals. Our next round we got our highest sore yet. We made it to the semi-finals. We were one of the best four alliances.
The semi-finals started we had a good first match. In this round each alliance plays three matches and the best two averages move on. We played our second match and we were in second place. We were looking like we might actually make it to the finals with one match left to go. We didn't have a working robot to start the day and now we were one match from making it to the finals. It wasn't meant to be. In our last match one of the robots on our team did not function. Or emotional weekend was over. We were so very happy to just be part of the whole thing. We are one of the best robots in Michigan and we got our chance to prove it.
We found out that we made it to the world championships because of how well we did at the state competition. So next week the robotics team is heading to Saint Louis for the world championships. Everything starts again next Wednesday. This is a three day event and will finish on Saturday with a new world champion. We will have a new gearbox and a spare for this competition. We will go and have fun and see what trouble we can make. Go team 107.
I wish you could have been there this weekend,
Your Loving Dad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snNPSlW0AhQ
We were 10th overall after the first day and 5 matches. This is a really great place to be. We finished 10th on Friday after 10 matches. Friday night we got really bad news our gearbox broke. We had spare parts so it wasn't that bad, or so we thought. They were working on the gearbox when I left on Friday night. I expected to come back on Saturday morning and see the robot back up and running. Saturday morning we put the rebuilt gearbox on the robot but it wasn't working properly. We tried adapting a different gearbox to the robot but we had many different issues that we didn't have time to fix. We went out and showed up for our last match thinking our weekend was done. We had no gearbox so we couldn't play the game. We took one last chance and put the gearbox back on the robot and adjusted things again. IT WAS WORKING!!!! We took the robot to the practice field and ran it through the paces. It was working just as good as before. We could play the game. We were ranked 15 going into alliance selections. We knew we had earned a spot to play in the finals but now we could actually participate.
There are 16 alliances that start in the playoffs. Each alliance has three teams. The format for this year is every team plays two matches and the 8 teams with the highest average scores move on. We played our two matches and waited to see if we made it to the quarter finals. We were in eighth place with 6 matches to play. Each team played and we were still in eight. One after one they went and we were in eight place. Then it was all done and we were still in eight place. We made it to the quarter finals. We were just happy to be playing the game. We move on with the highest eight teams. This round was the same as the last. Each alliance plays two rounds and the four teams with the highest average scores move on. We played our first round of matches and at the end of the first round we were in third place. We were starting to get excited we had done well enough that if we played the same match again we could move on to the semi-finals. Our next round we got our highest sore yet. We made it to the semi-finals. We were one of the best four alliances.
The semi-finals started we had a good first match. In this round each alliance plays three matches and the best two averages move on. We played our second match and we were in second place. We were looking like we might actually make it to the finals with one match left to go. We didn't have a working robot to start the day and now we were one match from making it to the finals. It wasn't meant to be. In our last match one of the robots on our team did not function. Or emotional weekend was over. We were so very happy to just be part of the whole thing. We are one of the best robots in Michigan and we got our chance to prove it.
We found out that we made it to the world championships because of how well we did at the state competition. So next week the robotics team is heading to Saint Louis for the world championships. Everything starts again next Wednesday. This is a three day event and will finish on Saturday with a new world champion. We will have a new gearbox and a spare for this competition. We will go and have fun and see what trouble we can make. Go team 107.
I wish you could have been there this weekend,
Your Loving Dad
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