Check out our youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/aucklandrobotics! We have video footage of a bunch of matches at the world champs – mostly from college qualification, but a couple of high school semi-finals and college elimination as well! If you found the content useful, leave us a comment on the video! Also some photos! [photoxhibit=9]
Public Media Coverage
The week before we left for Worlds, we were involved in several interviews for various media outlets. You can read the article covering us in the Central Leader newspaper here: https://www.aura.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/centralleader.png You can also listen to our 10 minute interview on the Public Address radio show on RadioLIVE here: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2979/
World Championships – Final Update
We did pretty well today! After our 2nd place ranking yesterday, we entered into elimination rounds. There was a 32-team bracket, and we beat our first opponents in the round-of-64 and round-of-32, but unfortunately lost to a team from Philadelphia in the round-of-16 in a 2-1 set of 3 matches. It was pretty infuriating for us to be knocked out …
World Championships – Day Two!
After a strong start yesterday as first place in the highly volatile College division (with the rankings changing every match), we played six more matches today. With a lot of work done to perfect the robot mechanically over the last couple of days, most effort was spent on strategy and autonomous today. We won 5 of our 6 matches, beating …
World Championships – First Day Update!
After arriving in Orlando much jet-lagged yesterday at about 6am, we set up our pit, did some urgent repairs on the robots after the plane rides, and got some rest. Today, the competition matches started, with 35 teams competing in the College Division. We faced some tough opponents in our practice match, defending World Champions MNU (Mianyang Normal University) from …
Getting Ready for Worlds
We’ve had a pretty hectic week! In amongst all of the end of mid-semester tests that everyone seems to have for every paper they do, we’ve had to get ready for the World Champs too! This included borrowing a field from Kristin, doing a demonstration to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, doing a public demonstration as well, doing interviews for …
2011 Worlds Re-Reveal
A couple of weeks ago, the lab that we were working in got flooded, with several ceiling tiles falling on the ground from the rain. We had to quickly salvage all of our equipment as quickly as possible. As a result, we had to make some adjustments to the robots, so now they look a little bit different. Here are …
2011 Worlds Reveal
Yo! So here are our robots for the World Championships, Bravo and Zulu, in their finished and completed form. Bask in their glory! And even better yet, no quiz this time! [photoxhibit=7]
New Zealand Nationals
After a pretty tiring weekend, the New Zealand Nationals are over! A lot of effort was put in by a lot of people to get everything running and going, with 45 high school teams in attendance from all across New Zealand. The competition was fierce, as each team played 13 matches over the two days in qualification rounds. At the …
Strategy/Design Session
After our efforts at the mini-scrimmage at Massey on the weekend, we decided to have a proper design/strategy session to figure out what we’re going to do with our two robots. After a three hour discussion session, we decided to rebuild Bravo completely, and we might rebuild Zulu as well. Below are some photos of us and our facilities here …