As well as one almost perfect score (110 points with one die facing up with a 2 instead of a 6).bugsrcool wrote:PA had two perfect scores with all four dice facing up with 6's. One finished at 2:20 something and the other was 2:57. First was manual while second was autonomous. The playing field was a little weird as the egg cartons were Styrofoam and the diagram on the floor was covered with a sheet of plastic. Made moving the egg cartons almost impossible without flipping them over. The team that came in first tried to pull it over, the egg carton flipped over, then they had to flip it back over to get the ping pong balls in. Otherwise, I think they would have finished in around 2:00. Great job to all of the robot arms. It was a very entertaining event.
The arena was made of plexiglass sheeting with the robot arm arena print out underneath. I personally like the pexi-glass arena flooring as it requires teams to have very good control over their arm, especially if they want to keep the edge pieces from rolling out. It also presents problems when teams try to move the egg cartons as it provides a grippy surface. A few teams realized that it would be hard to move the egg cartons and actually changed their plan of attach during their practice 3 minutes, which was cool to watch. (I'm also biased, as I used to practice on plexiglass arenas when robot arm was an event a few years ago. If you can get a perfect score on plexiglass, any other surface is a piece of cake.)
Shoutout to Penncrest who had one of the coolest arms I've ever seen (I don't feel comfortable describing their design, but maybe someone on their team will post a video or post something here), but needless to say the amount of time and effort that went into perfecting the device must have been tremendous.
