Robotics Update

Although I haven't blogged about my robotics competition it is still going on and a lot has happened. I designed a completely new robot that could score way more points for my state competition. The competition started off bad  with the judges telling me my robot was out of the size limit and I could not compete unless a fixed it very quickly. I was trying not to panic because I could fix the issue but then the robot would not make many points. Eventually I was able to find a piece that allowed my robot to stay in bounds and still score lots of points but just barely. After that was the qualifying matches in  which each match your team is paired up with another team and for that match only both teams work together and share the score. After ten matches like this it was time for the final matches. I was doing okay but not that great. For the finals matches the top two current teams get paired up then the next two teams etc. Then each pair has one match and which ever pair scores highest wins, I was in 3rd so I got paired up with the team in 4th who happened to go to the same robotics place that I did. Since we knew each other we had the advantage that we had practiced with each other but the top pair had better robots. In the match my pair did great but we still thought that the other pair could beat us. When it was there turn we thought they had beaten us but when it was actually counted we won 140 to 120. Since I won the state competition I am now qualified for the world event in mid April and I was already qualified for the national event which is in the first week of April. I am now preparing a slightly different robot for nationals and worlds.