Game on

In the morning, we met in front of the arena even earlier than usual, so that we could sing the Czech national anthem before the start of the competition itself. Right after the ceremonies, we did a final test of our automatic phase on the mock filed before heading straight to the real one for the first match. In it, we demonstrated a rarely seen feat, the 3-piece auto. This means that in the automatic phase, when our drivers cannot control the robot, which moves all by itself, we managed to hit a game piece into the speaker for five points, drive up to the next one, pick it up, shoot it for a further five points and repeat the trick for a third one, after which we still had time to drive away from our zone within the fifteen seconds, granting us another two points. Thanks to this trick, we start the remote-controlled phase with seventeen points already on the board, so it is not surprising that we got up to 29 for the whole match. This all happenned despite the fact that in a collision with another team we partially lost control for the last half minute of the game and even before that only shot into the AMP for a single point per shot.

The second game didn't work out for us at all. Our teammates unfortunately, due to more malfunctions, weren´t really able to help us and because of an error in setting up our robot´s wheels we couldn´t repeat our wonderful 3-piece auto. After that, the opponent seized on our situation and blocked our bot with two of their own, so we only managed 3 scored game pieces for one point each. During the climb, for which we would have gotten 3 points, one of our teammates sadly knocked us off in the last seconds, making this a rather contrastingly bad performance compared to the brilliant result of the last round.

The third and fourth matches turned out the same as the first and second. In both, our teammates kept malfuncitoning or just weren´t a good match (like both of them only being to score in one location), but in the third they still tried to help our bot score as much as we can, so we at least won our alliance 2 Ranking Points. We weren't so lucky in the fourth game.

The fifth game showed what we are capable of. This time we got a teammate that was also one of the favorits. We showcased our new 3.5-piece auto where, in addition to shooting three game elements, we also load another one on top ready to fire at the start of the teleop phase. Our new teammate also pitched in and together we managed to score a whopping four Ranking Points, the maximum achievable for a single game. We got two for winning, one for successfully scoring fifteen game pieces, and one for an excellent climbing combination, where we hung both of our capable robots on one chain and the other parked next to us. This game moved us up to 24th place and gave us our hopes of a great result back.