Hi, everyone, my name is Yu. Today I am going to share my score and process in the VIQC February LRT. I will also talk about how we practiced before the competition.
This online competition was held in California, and the time zone is a lot different, so we have to be awake from 12:45 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. in our time zone.
Last time the competition used the LRT system, but there were lots of problems, so this time we just need to use Zoom for the whole competition.
This time we saw lots of different types of robots. Some push balls, some collect balls and take them into the low goal, and some collect 10 balls and can shoot with the catapult. We used the robot that can collect 6 balls with a catapult and a high hang system.
The best and max score we can get for one team in this competition is 152 points. We will be paired up with a teammate and our scores will be added up together. So the max score in a match would be 304 points.
Our robot is pretty good. We can get 152 points if we make no mistakes, but dropping a few balls and lowering the scores down a little bit is normal.
In the qualifying matches, we did pretty well. We will always discuss the strategy with the upcoming teammate. Sometimes they won't reply, but most of the time, they reply when we are close to the match.
We were in first place in the ranking when the qualifications ended with 231 points, so we will be the last pair of teams to do the finals.
Finally, it's time for the final matches. In the sixth final match, the teams scored 242 points, which is high, so we were nervous. In the seventh match, the teams scored 246 points.
We knew we just need to do everything that we can do and hope that our allies can get a pretty high score. We did really well in the beginning, but in the end, I dropped 2 balls, which is minus 8 points. Even though we dropped 2 balls, it's still a decent score.
The next thing we could do is to see if our allies get over 107 points, which shouldn't be a big problem to them. Unfortunately, their catapult broke, so we only got a total of 242 points, 4 points from being the first place.
Even though the results are pretty unfortunate, we still worked hard for this competition. The day before the competition, we found and fixed lots of problems with our teacher. Those improvements are very important. Lots of balls could drop or our robot might stop functioning without those improvements.
After the competition, we became fourth place at LRT in the world. If we participate in another competition and did great, I believe our ranking can go up.
I think today I felt happy because today I shared my experience of the worldwide competition. Even though the results might not be the best, we still got first in the qualifications, which is really good. We also learn a lot throughout the competition.
