What an exciting day! FIX IT won all three of their matches for a record of 5/6. We were in sixth place at the start of Alliance Selection and invited to join the fourth alliance.
Unfortunately, our alliance was eliminated in the semifinals.
After the final matches were played, it was time for the block party! There was dancing and even a photo booth. Here’s some pictures we took with some of the RoboKings.
Personal highlights of the day
Bryce – My favourite part about today’s competition was having to test our alliance partner candidate’s Autonomous in order to assist us in deciding who to pick.
Garrett – Explaining the Event and what FIRST is to a pair of curious university students that had wandered in.
Max – seeing how happy team VORTEX was after we chose them to be on our alliance.
Food/beverage highlights of the day
Garrett – Drinking Max’s 7 dollar green apple juice. It definitely wasn’t what he wanted.
After Victoria Qualifiers, we were able to go to Vancouver for the FTC BC Championships! The event was a lot bigger, and we met some old and new friends!
Setting up our pit (not struggling at all)
The first day of the 2-day event was practice matches. We did really well, but this day it didn’t matter because it was all practice.
FIX IT and PARABELLUM! BC’s 2 World’s teams reunited.
After the practice matches came the team social event, where there was some intense ping-pong, Mario Kart, and Indian food eating. This was super fun and also a good de-stress before the actual competition the next day.
Amren about to get smoked by Jackson in Connect 4Bryce thinks he’s the GOAT (he is)
Competition!!
The following day we had our qualification and elimination matches. For some reason, we did a LOT better during our practice matches than we did in the qualifications. We did not finish with a very high placement, but we were still selected to be on the 1st place alliance.
FIX IT and Reynolds against the 4th Alliance in Semifinal Match 1!
Our alliance was unfortunately eliminated in this semifinal. So that was the end of the road for us, but then the award ceremony happened…
INSPIRE?!?!?!
FIX IT won Inspire!! Upon winning 1st place Inspire at BC Championships, we received an invite to World Championships ion Houston, Texas (again). But we declined this opportunity, and it was passed to Forces Unknown.
We declined World Championships because we were one of the 48 teams across the world that received an invite to the Asia Pacific Open Championships! APOC takes place in Sydney, Australia. It takes a lot of time and money to get ready for this competition, and we have already been to World Championships. So we wanted to dedicate our time to getting ready for Australia. We wish Reynolds and Forces Unknown the best of luck with their fundraising and we hope they have fun in Houston!
As for everyone else in the competition, you all did amazing and should all be very proud of yourselves, because we are all proud of you! We look forward to seeing you all next season!
This is what happens when Christine leaves for 0.001 seconds
Competition time!! After gathering inspiration from some insane robots and ideas at the Washington Interleague, we came back and made major improvements to our robot, strategy, and programming. This was all preparation for this event.
FIX IT chilling with a member of Reynold’s Reybots after trying to figure out why driver stations don’t treat us nicely.
It was a huge jump from our last Victoria competition (the scrimmage in November) to this. All the teams had new things up their sleeves, and it was amazing to see how far everyone has come. New strategies, new mechanisms, and so much more swept the competition. We taught other teams, and learned a lot too.
FIX IT was the 3rd place alliance captain!
Shoutout to team 20025 Esquimalt Atom Smashers, who were our alliance partners for semi-finals against teams 16195 Guild of Builders, and 22557 Mount Douglas. While the journey ended there for us, the competition was a thrill to be a part of, and a great opportunity to show and test our robot.
There were some shenanigans happening while waiting for awards…
Great jobs to all teams, coaches, judges, and volunteers!! None of it would be possible without everybody’s contributions. We’ll be seeing many of the teams at BC Championships on February 28th and 29th in Vancouver!!
We may not have been able to compete in Washington this year, but we still wanted to go check out what the Washington robotics teams are doing. We took a ferry and drove for many hours to watch some amazing matches, talk to some awesome teams, and eat some Subway.
FIX IT on the ferry and barely awake…
It was great to meet some of the Washington teams that we haven’t seen since World Championships, or that we haven’t seen since we last competed in Washington. Everyone had amazing robots and performed great in the competition!
FIX IT talking to Sushi Squad (collab of the century?!?!?)Bryce giving Kai the FIX IT blessing (this is very prestigious according to nobody)
Unfortunately we had to leave just after watching the semi finals, but we watched a huge chunk of matches and learned a lot from the visit. We took our fresh knowledge back to Victoria and we will use it to improve our robot! Huge thanks again to all the Washington teams for making the journey worth it!
Also, you will NEVER GUESS who we ran into on the way back!!!!
The Victoria Scrimmage was held at St. Margaret’s on Nov. 28, 2022. It was very exciting to see all of the teams in person and to check out their robots before the matches started.
FIX IT at the Scrimmage
It felt like we were queueing constantly. It felt like there was a lot we were bringing to the queueing table (beacon, sleeve, robot, driver station) which was stressful but the matches were very fun and overall it was great to see some of the rookie/underdog teams absolutely dominate with all of the experience and skill they had obtained. It goes to show that you can always compete no matter how long you’ve been involved with FIRST.
FIX IT Team with the robot at the Victoria Scrimmage
