FRC Howell District 2015

This past weekend the AdamBots and CyberCats competed in their first competition of the season at Parker Middle School in Howell, Michigan. After six weeks of designing and building, and then a feverish six hours of out-of-bag time, Anastasia and Genesis were ready to prove their stuff.

From the start, it was an interesting competition. We started the day against our sister team, team #5436, The CyberCats. They started the day off strong by beating the AdamBots, 8-24. As the day progressed, we made minor changes to the robots between matches. Friday, while maybe a bit tougher than we anticipated, was still a great day. Match after match, we got stronger. Our drive team learned, our team cheered, and our robot exposed weaknesses that we had the opportunity to fix. The scores are below, with ours bolded.

8-24

33-51

52-83 (with CyberCats!)

92-59

66-72

15-40

54 -2

65 – 57

72 – 94

60 – 50

70 – 68

42 – 29

After the qualification matches, we placed 15th out of 40 teams. During alliance selection, we were picked by team 3668, the TroBots. The third pick of our alliance was team 3357, the Comets. The CyberCats were a third pick of the 2nd alliance. Although we were the 8th alliance, we fought a good battle and made it to the semifinals of play-offs. Our scores are below.

Quarter finals

106 – 84

109 – 78

Semifinals

75 – 114

111 – 128

34 – 79

At the end of the day, we took home the Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen, which “celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance”.  The CyberCats won the Rookie Inspiration award, celebrating “a rookie team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school, as well as in their community”,which automatically qualifies them for the States competition. Hopefully we’ll see them there!  Written by Sydney Micklas