Dead Robot Society Blog

oh no!

We faced the most difficult team so far, a team whose strategy involves carrying all four cups on its back and onto the other team’s side. We did well with our tribbles, but so did they, so we tied on tribble scores. We got three of our four cups, as is typical, but that last cup occasionally goes over the side and this would have been a great time for that to happen. Their legobot was going across the bridge at the same time that ours was, so our bots crashed and drove off the side together. Our create got across and into their shelter, and their create got over to our side in the last few seconds… with all the cups on top. Bummer.

I’m definitely glad it’s double elimination, so we’re still in after this our first loss.

This round was pretty epic. The other team had a sort of Project X type structure to prevent us from getting to the other side, but our Legobot is a beast and still made it up the hill enough to fight with their bot. It managed to push its way over a bit, moving the bridge blocker so that the angle of the hill was small enough that the Create would probably make it across. After some fighting, it stopped at the top because it thought it had finished its code. But their bots knocked the other half of the bridge down for us, and after the Create had done a wonderful job sorting Tribble piles, it also forced its way into the mess. Half of the bot was on their side, but the start switch didn’t make it. However, we still got the 15 points for Legobot and got an overall awesome score.

Our first round went quite well. The Create did excellent grabs, doing everything as well as usual. We had 13 good Tribbles, meaning we scored all of them from the bottoms of each pile. Legobot, however, ran into the difficulties we can expect (or not expect, as we never know) when it crossed the board. Their bot was right at the edge of the board, so from the beginning we ran into them and became misaligned. We ended up stuck in their solarium without having hit down the other half of the bridge, so the Create never made it across. Nevertheless, we got a nice score.