Category: Competitions

BC League 5

League 5 is the final FIRST Tech Challenge league event in British Columbia, and it was a success! All of our team members at the workshop did an amazing job during practice and during scoring matches.

Beyonce didn’t have any mechanical issues, but it was clear that we need more driver practice.

Picture of our robot, Beyonce, in March 2021

As a part of Fair Play, we recorded all of our matches, available for everyone to see on YouTube.

We are all excited for Wednesday, the Virtual Pits with League Wrap-up. We’ll see how we did compared to other teams around British Columbia.

Scrimmage

Today we were invited to a Remote Scrimmage with High Definition and RoboEclipse. 

High Definition has a carbon fibre drive train and can shoot quickly. They have a big arm for the wobble goal and collecting and shooting is done in a linear path.

Robo Eclipse 11138 has a really cool like triangular arm and lots of quick shooting.

We then played some matches. It was a little difficult getting the match up and started, but we managed to do it! Every other team seems to have the same struggles anyways; whether that was randomization or autonomous and it took the full 2 hours to get through all the teams. The lag on discord also made some matches harder to watch.

It was a fun day and chance to see more FTC people.

Washington State Championships

It was great seeing all the teams at the Washington State Championships. Technova’s autonomous program was amazing, even if it had a few difficulties. We liked Perpetual Velocity’s fun team introductions, Bearded Pineapples had a great slideshow with CAD and of course, Safety Steve.

We like this year’s game since Alliances really have to work together to score the most points. Lots of teams were working with their Alliance Partners on the practice fields which was fun to watch.

Our robot had good matches (successful autonomous, stacking and end game points) and challenges (dragging a tape measure around the field during tele-op).

14179 Sushi Squad (2nd Alliance Captain) choose 12611 TechNova and FIX IT for their alliance partners. Unfortunately, we lost out in the semi-finals.

FIX IT was very excited to win the Inspire Award and qualify for the Houston Championships!

Wow, we won Inspire!

Pasteur League Jan. 2020

In spite of some weather challenges, FIX IT was able to go to Interleague but one of our team members missed the ferry. We were very exited to see the Washington State Teams who weren’t in our league.

FIX IT worked well with their partners and were ranked 1st at the end of the Qualifying Rounds.  We chose 12611 TechNova and 6541 Titan Robotics II, which was a great alliance with all the teams and robots working well together.  It was very exciting to win the final match and be the Captain of the Winning Alliance.

Pasteur League Winning Alliance

Our team members were surprised and delighted to be nominated for the design award and win the Control Award.  Best of all, we’re going to the Washington State Championships on Jan. 26, 2020.

Washington State Championships

The FIX IT Robotics Team will be one of 34 teams competing today, March 17 at the Championship Event in Seattle Washington.

Opening Ceremonies is at 11am, with robot matches played all afternoon. If they are on time, final awards starts at 5:30pm.

There’s usually a live feed from the competition, but I don’t have the link yet. It should be posted on the FIRST Washington Website.
Live feed link: http://twitch.tv/firstwa_blue1