Things People Enjoyed/Found Fun
- Anna: Perfect Winning Streak, and when Karthik kept saying ‘Still Undefeated’, a great high score
- Zach: Our autos (being better than atnewmarket), we had a good design that held up, felt like we were much more organized here than before which was a big win
- Meaghan: When things broke we were still winning because we would fix it
- Finlay: The last couple of matches, it kinda sucked how the arm broke but Benjamin playing defense was good
- Ibrahim: Talking to teams and judges, Kenneth getting safety all-star again (it’s an honour to be in his presence)
- Kenneth: Also liked talking to teams and Judges, atmosphere in the Pit was good (a little crowded tho)
- Kevin: Good strategy and selecting the pick, alt f4 carrying in finals 2
- Eden: Preventing problems from happening more often than prev events, the general pit management was good
- Brennan: Different people we had in charge of each section were very strong and maximized what we could do with the experience we had
- Cynthia: Games were fairly consistent, drivers were awesome, and the shark made her day
- Edward: Liked seeing what all the other robots were and what teams came up with
- Ender: The toaster, on stream it seemed like people were having fun/were energetic even as the days went on
- Quinton: Efficient system of leads and students being in right places to maximize the skills
- Samuel: Even tho the robot broke several times we were still undefeated
- Sylvan: The scouting system efficiency felt really organized and not broken, liked it being fast and easy
- Dorothy: Kept bracing myself for things going wrong but instead we kept winning
- Darryl: Taking the time leading up to the event time coming in early over the break and getting prepared, comments Finlay made about team morale, team spirit
- Taegen: Pit leadership, scouting improvements (go Logan), drive team performance under pressure, picking a team who we actually helped pass inspection, Ibrahim getting to lead up a strat
Scouting
| Scouting Went Well | Scouting Things to Improve |
|---|---|
| Enjoyed being involved in picklist making, felt more part of things | Laptop dies lol |
| Seats were best we could get | Seats still weren’t great, thx humber |
| Scouting meeting was fun, run better than last time with speed/organization | Still not sure what ‘good or bad’ was, felt distanced from scouting meeting |
| Scouting system ran better than last time | Did get distracted at scouting meeting, side conversations |
| Much better initial lists to work from at picklist meeting (would like to be able to make an average list) | Was annoying to look thru teams individually, wasn’t a lot of time between matches to do data pull |
| Scouts were better at being on time, still significant room for improvement | If we keep using trello, we might want an individual device for than instead of someones phone |
| Logan did very well | Should get someone non-strategy to record matches because it’s hard to focus on watching (for debrief) and recording well |
| High %of student engagement for scouting | Improve on comment quality, maybe try a qualitative scouting practice exercise |
| Try to add team photos into team lookup for scouting meeting | |
| Online people should always share their notes | |
| Scouting app doesn’t refresh between teleop and auto so you have to delete game pieces scored (are we supposed to? uncertain) | |
| Original picklists were still somewhat weak so should do some practice on that | |
| Need to work on validating during the event |
Drive Team
| Drive Team Went Well | Drive Team things to Improve |
| Felt better after having practice time, built skill and confidence which had direct result on how well we did | Finlay: Want more contingency plans (small ones) - like what to do if people are falling off, should figure out alignment for robot cart better |
| liked how the lights worked for better communication | Edward: driver station wire management is lacking in existence |
| getting robot on/off field went smoothly, no major hiccups | Meaghan: was alone to drive robot post-match, need pit crew (@kenneth) to come out to assist at field exit |
| did actual match review (hooray) which helped improvement throughout the event, | communication can still be a bit better (specifically with cone placements, driver operator communication can still be improved to speed up cycles) - unclear who has to make adjustments (sometimes it’s arm, sometimes it’s robot, practice that more) |
| played relatively slow and didn’t rush, dropped like 2 pieces the whole event) | Some problems with setpoints drifting over the course of the event, need to improve accuracy - chain deterioration |
| human player pickups were very good at the end | should discuss as a DT on how to reduce stress and remaining calm throughout a match since we still had some panic |
| still hitting HP shelf guard | |
| Brennan didn’t know the scoring points and was doing match incorrectly for game pieces |
Strategy
| Strategy Went Well | Strategy things to Improve |
| Ibrahim felt like he understood what was going on and felt confidence improving over the course of the event | Would be good for ibrahim to be able to watch more matches even when being stuck in the Pit, felt like he didn’t know the recent stuff happening (twitch?), pit stream is unreliable |
| Seemed to be strategically sound | Too many people talking at a time in alliance Strategy |
| Enjoyed talking to other teams | being clear with other teams about boundaries |
| Newfound appreciation for how Taegen/Brennan interact with other teams because sometimes they can be difficult, we managed some hard conversations | Had some difficulties getting the right team to Match Review (awareness) |
Pit
| Pit Went Well | Pit things to Improve |
| M: we were efficient at fixing things (like replacing the Roborio betweeen matches and it working perfectly), still had time to go through checklists | M: would like to have compressed air in the pit (EDITORS NOTE: there’s some in the toolbox at all times) |
| K: able to do things we needed to do | Need a new battery charger ASAP, don’t want to have to rely on other teams |
| Even when we had judging there was times we were working in the background, didn’t stop us | K: too many people in the pit at times, makes it harder to work |
| Better about combing through the robot and preventing issues before they happened (rather than retroactive) | Key pieces for replacements were not either super accessible or werent there |
| Most issues that we had were reasonable (no big silly mistakes) | Still packed unneccessary things (E says she can look at packing list), like practice batteries |
| Drive team was in a lot less than Newmarket, more people able to focus on their roles | Getting used to memorizing which tools are used for which repairs - which sizes and using those rather than fishing through allen key box of doom, using the toolbag as much as possible |
| Cleanliness of the pits was good (obviously still room for improvement) but it was good | Speed and hustle, need a can-do attitude and willingness to do whatever needs to be done no matter what (attitude matters!) |
| Kenneth safety all star x2 | Should add gloves to the packing list (because the grease) |
| Improve robot controls knowledge for pit students (still having issues with testing without drive team members), even a map of the operator controller - benjamin tried to explain but M says she needs hands on experience to help memorize what does what | |
| make a laminated guide to robot controls | |
| Handles on the robot to pick it on and off the field would be helpful (right now you have to reach under the bumpers which can cause damage) | |
| impact presentation boards looked good in the pit, just need to improve velcro attachments for them (what about those hooks that attach to walls) | |
| get spare sprockets for tensioners |
Overall
- make sure people eat and track whos eaten
- we ended up losing a lot of seats for whatever reason, and then had too much stuff and not enough seats
- investing more in spares (spare tensioners, spare intake) with fast process to switch in out