The team made it to Houston! They’re playing on the Galileo field.

Automatic updates to the blog haven’t been working, so here are the match updates from today.

QUAL MATCH #56 – DEBRIEF AND DAY SUMMARY by Lucia

Red alliance takes the match 658 to 179!! A fantastic way to end the day.

Today was a roller coaster to say the very least. Seeing every single person lean into their work today has again proved that we can and will succeed here at worlds. As we wrap up this first full comp day I would like to highlight our teams work.

thank you mentors for:
-supporting students navigating the crazy thing that is being on a team
– ensuring that we are safe and fed
-taking every opportunity as a teaching one

thank you scouts for:
-doing all of the tedious work behind the scenes
-constantly being on your A game to supplement our knowledge and gameplay decisions
-being gracious and professional to all the other teams you interact with

thank you pit for:
-cleaning up the drive teams messes
-persevering and pulling through in the face of doubt
-staying locked in and ready 24/7

thank you strategy for:
-dedicating your time to make important and difficult judgment calls about the outcome of our games and tournaments

thank you drive team for:
-showing up with the enthusiasm and charisma of a million men
– tackling the complex issues that come up every time
– leaving your soul on the field

And thank you to everyone who supports the team!!

As I type; the drive team discusses their hopes and dreams for tomorrow. Below are some of them:

• win against Orbit
• win in our match with Patriotics
• Build relationships with other teams
• Take care of ourselves
• Have fun

Happy first day of qualifications!!! Love ya NoMythic

Match 56 by Opal

Great match! Second stage hopper roof came off, intake isn’t going back into the bot, some alignment issues there. We have some remaining quest looseness, it popped out of it’s mount once again.

Pit is now working on addressing these issues with many hypothesis and ideas to jump in with!

Match 42 by Opal

This was a good match the intake took quite a few hits but we were operating well. it was a tough matchup but we still managed to give it our all. We will need to check the whole robot for damage and prepair fo the next match

Pit team is going to make sure to fully check the intake and make sure the rest of the robot is in working order.

QUAL MATCH #31 by Lucia

Red alliance unfortunately lost the match 477 to 838.
Going into this match we knew it would be tough as it was against some of the highest scoring bots in our division. Here’s a little break down of what drive team reported:

We had some troubles with our alliance members beaching and ended up being the main scorer on red. We did play well and score high (higher than projected) considering those factors.

Auto went great, but we didn’t quite squeeze by to win it. Full field passing was a little shaky but the right idea. Overall it was a good match fought well.

Now queuing for match #42. Heads high NoMythic, heads high

QUAL MATCH #13 by Lucia

Red alliance wins 710 to 612!! A new Galileo record!

Our auto got a little bit messed up when getting over the bump and there was some odometry issues during the initial set up. We ended up losing auto…. But we got a chance to smoothly and carefully reset the odometry to ensure the rest of the match went well.

We scored high, played smart, and came off the field in one piece! There are a few more kinks to workout, but we are past the majority of any issues that came up previously.

QUAL MATCH #1

Despite heavy defense, we took qual match number one blank to blank. Our auto ran spectacular, scoring nearly 90 points, and in teleop we got around defense and scored even more before our intake broke, after which we sheltered against the wall to preserve our intake from further damage. Our pit is working now on repairs and you can see us next in qual match #13!

Thursday Match Schedule

We got our new challenge on January 10. Since then, our whole team has had one focus – work together to build a robot and a team ready to compete. This past weekend, we packed up the team, the pit, the mentors, and many parents and headed to Duluth to see how well our work would come together.

Watching this robot perform is a thing of beauty. Our team decided to focus on picking up balls and shooting them – and this robot nails it. It picks up a whole huge hopper of balls, and when it shoots, there’s a whole arc of balls sliding right into the hopper. It’s fun to watch – and fun to watch our scores skyrocket as well.

But of course, the real success is the team members – the students and mentors who thought strategically, build carefully, showed up, and stayed late to build this machine of their dreams.

And they won! They played hard, played fair, networked with other teams across the competition – and came in first.

Now the team is headed to World Championship in April (after our second regional in Minneapolis). It’s expensive, but with a lot of help from our friends and family – we hope to compete hard, network fiercely, make new friends, and have a blast competing with teams from all over the country and the world.

Want to help? Check out our Houston and Beyond Paypal Campaign , to help us get to $50,000!

Robotics is hard. We relish finding out how much each of us can bring – and how much we can do together.

We took the first steps to come together as a team this weekend. We traveled to a beautiful spot – a cabin by a lake in Wisconsin owned by the grandparents of a former team captain, who support us so well by lending us this spot to build our team.

We worked together, played together, set goals and expectations, and generally bonded as a group. What a gift of a weekend. It was also a blast!

With the rise in the cases, and the optional masks at the Fair, our team chose not to attend in person. But our robot attended! Friends took pictures so we know how well “Revolution” did this year.