January 2012 Washington State FTC Championship

Washington State FTC Championship

January 14/15, 2012

There were 24 teams at the Washington State Championship.  Every team had seven matches in the qualifying rounds.  This tournament was the time we have been at an event that ran ahead of schedule!  It was even more surprising that there were no significant lost connections or matches that had to be restarted.  The Field Volunteers did a great job!

Our new robot, Ralph, had a basic 4 wheel drive system that we used at the December event.  For this event, our new ball collector was installed and was much more efficient that the arm we used in December.  Ralph's crate lifter worked well, but we're going to add some grabber arms to reduce the time it takes to pick up a crate.

We had fun on our 5th match playing the 417 Swerve against both Cyber Knights and Cyber Daze.  We were all at the World Championships together in April 2011.  By the end of the match, no one was sure who had won.  There were only 2 points separating the teams.  Congratulations to the Cyber teams!

In one of the final matches, two robots lifted crates high in the air and got a score over 350 points.  

We were delighted to be nominated for the Connect Award, and even more excited when the announced that 3491 FIX IT had won the Think Award!

Find out more about who are the FTC team 3491  FIX IT.