Each year, teams are presented with a new challenge. This year’s challenge is named Freight Frenzy and one of the main goals of the competition are to move “freight” from a “warehouse” area onto a “Shipping Hub” or into a “Storage Unit”. The shipping hub has 3 levels and the higher the level you put the freight, the higher your score.
This image shows what the game field looks like, with all of the field elements on the field.
In all FTC competitions, the game is broken down into 3 periods; autonomous, driver controlled (aka teleop), and end game. Autonomous is a 30 second period that the robot runs completely on pre-programmed code and the team cannot interfere with the robot’s actions. In teleop, the drivers take control of the robot and drive and manipulate it’s components via game controllers. The last 30 seconds of teleop is known as end game and additional scoring can be done during this period by accomplishing certain tasks.
This year’s competitions started with the first 2 being “remote”. This means that we competed on a field by ourselves. Our field was actually on the back porch of our coach. The third event was a traditional event where we met with other teams and formed alliances of two robots, with a red alliance and a blue alliance who competed against each other.
At the Regionals competition, team Excaliper was selected to play in the finals, and advanced to the final round. In the final round, team Excaliper and our partner team “Hazmat Robotics Biohazards” from Lake Highland Preparatory school, won in 2 out of 3 matches, ending the day with the highest score of the day!
The Final Match of Finals, and the highest score of the day!