This is the first competition me and my team attended in this year's VRC OverUnder season. Unlike regular competition that is continuous, this a a league competition, in which the competition is split into a total of 4 weeks. The competition will be played on Sunday.
The first 3 weeks will be qualification matches and skills matches, while teams can choose to either participate in all 3 weeks or only 2 of them. Every team gets 6 skill attempts during every week of competition. The final skills ranking will be the best total score out of 3 weeks. The last 1 week will be the final matches with no skills matches.
This competition has no qualifying awards, but it is still very important since this is our very first competition of the season. It will be best if we start to familiarize ourselves with how competition goes.
Each team will compete in 6 qualification matches every first 3 weeks. The final qualification rankings will be ranked in the order of the average of Win Points earned. That is why performing stably is very important.
In our first week of competition, October 29th, we won 5 matches out of 6 and ranked 4th in qualification rankings. It was a smooth start, but most of the time we won with a little luck. I wouldn't consider this as a stable win.
In our second week of competition, November 12th, we won 5 matches out of 6 again, ranked 2nd in qualification rankings. This time, I can say that we had a really stable performance compared to last week. All our strategies were more complete and we are all more familiar with how the competition goes.
At the end of the qualification weeks, we ranked 2nd in qualification and ranked 4th in skills ranking. We have a score of 131 in driver skills, and 110 in autonomous skills. Ranking 2nd in qualification means that we get to select an alliance for our final matches.
During the last week of preparation, we prepared different autonomous routes for the finals, since the objective is slightly different from the qualification matches. We paired up with team 66994P, which is also from our organization. Lastly, we won the tournament champion together, with our strategies.
Our team won the judges award, and the tournament champion award together with team 66994P. This was an quite unexpected result for us, it is unbelievable that we won the tournament championship in our very first VRC competition.
I think the results after this competition taught me that we are currently moving on the right path in designing our robot and strategizing. Our next competition is the PAS signature event, with world championship qualifying awards, so we have to improve more and try to do our best!
