Milken Knights
Team 1836 Kicking butt in a graciously professional manner!
2009
The Game:
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Lunacy is played on a rectangular field that is 54' by 27'. This field is a material called 'Glasliner FRP' and is referred to as 'Regolith'. The regolith is designed so that the robots, which have special mandated wheels that they can't modify in any way, shape or form, have reduced traction, mimicking the effect of low gravity that would be seen by a robot driving on the moon. Robots that play have to be, at most, 38" by 28" and weigh under or equal to 120 pounds. There are 6 robots on the field at a time, 3 on the red alliance and 3 on the blue alliance. Each team consists of 4 players - 2 drivers, a coach and a human player. There are a total of 6 human players, 3 on each alliance since there are 3 teams per alliance. Each alliance is assigned the 2 corner positions at either end of one long side of the field, and one position in the middle of the opposite long side of the field. All human players start with 20 Moon Rocks, and the players in the middle have, in addition to the 20 Moon Rocks, 4 Empty Cells. Each team can place up to 7 of their 20 Moon Rocks into their robot before the competition begins, but each human player must retain at least 13 Moon Rocks to start. The robots are dragging trailers behind them that correspond to the color of the alliance they are on. The goal of the game is to score as many of the Moon Rocks in the opposite side's trailer as possible, with a score of 2 points for each Moon Rock successfully placed in the trailer. It is not possible for a robot to have any mechanism that takes Moon Rocks out of their trailer, or prevent another robot or human player from placing balls into their trailer. Robots must have bumpers on them in order to protect from damage from the collisions that will inevitably occur. Robots start out in front of the opposite alliances' human players. More game info here. |
The Robot:
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Our 2009 robot could collect and shoot balls. It was very effective and for the first time we were able to go to championships. At championships we has a rough start, we lost our first two matches and then won the rest. |
