We fixed Legobot, but that still didn’t help it out much… it managed to knock down the other half of the bridge, but after that it couldn’t find the tape to square up and get back across. Unfortunately, all it did was take a majestic plunge into space. The Create had less than optimal performance on the Tribble piles, missing at least three oranges and then missing the cups, throwing off only one of the final 3. It still made it across the bridge and into the shelter, but it also dragged in two extra orange tribbles, giving additional points to the other side. So with those points, plus no Legobot on the other side, plus extra cups on our side and a lack of Tribbles, the bonus of the Create making it into the shelter didn’t help us out too much.
So now we rest up, have some fun, and come back for practice rounds tomorrow. Head-to-Head doesn’t start until Friday, and we should be able to tidy up our bots before we have to face the competition. So far, we should be in sixth out of 58 in seeding, which is a pretty decent score, and after looking at strategies it seems like we’ll be able to beat most of them in head-to-head.
And here is our good luck charm, who I finished after bringing lots of sewing supplies with me. I forgot to bring him to the watching area for the second two seeding rounds, so I’m contributing the lack of a good luck charm to our worse than usual scores.
After arriving at 7:30 for the very start of practice rounds, we’re definitely off to a good start. While we would have liked to sleep a bit longer than 6am, it was nice to get into the practice line before the last hour, when the line extended to the stairs to the parking garage. Wow. Everything’s been going smoothly, even though today we just practiced seeding round (since we only have to worry about seeding for today). We then went to watch Tim do his presentation on state machines, which was great and interesting. Yay Tim! Then we had a break for lunch, and at 12:45 lunch ended and there was another 45 minute practice session before the start of seeding rounds at 1:30. Of course, the lines went out the door again, so seeding rounds didn’t actually start until about 2 pm.
Seeding Round 1: 125 points. The Create did an excellent job on the Tribble piles, but the Legobot didn’t manage to complete any of its tasks once it got across the bridge. It did, however, manage to hit down the other half of the bridge. We hit their solarium area’s pipe and got stuck, so we didn’t manage to get any additional tribble piles, but we still got the 15 points for having the bot over there. The Create made it across the bridge and into their shelter, so we got that 30 points. It’s a great score, but we’re hoping to do even better in the next round.