CWU Competition Update
During the Qualification matches, teams are randomly placed in alliances. Because of this, you might have an amazing alliance one round and the next get completely stomped on. We felt some of the struggles with this, as we lost match after match, even though our robot was pulling it's weight and had the chance to be one of the top scoring robots. In one of our matches, our alliance scored 165 points and we make 150 of them. Even though we weren't placed the highest, we still
West Valley Competition Update
West Valley was, in short, quite a bit of chaos. As it was the first competition for all teams attending, we knew there would be some errors field set up, driving and robots, with us being no exception. During the competition, the team brainstormed ways to improve robot performance resulting in modifications that allowed much better cycle times in later matches. On Friday, the matches started out as hectic as expected. The matches started about two hours late and by the end o