WPI

We won the website award! The judges said that this was the cleanest site that they had ever seen, and liked how our Twitter feed was integrated with a gallery!

Additionally, Paige Grody is a Dean's List finalist. She's now competing for the national Dean's list award, to be decided during the Nationals in St. Louis.

Other than those awards, the LigerBots fared decently. Neither our minibot arm nor our logo piece manipulator worked well, but we found that our robot excelled at defense. We're going to work on both arms in the month until Boston Universities' Regional. After all of the matches ended, we were ranked 17th (we won six matches but lost five).

The minibots often seem to decide the matches. A great alliance can score 30 points of tubes during the game, but most score only about ten points of tubes. Even with the racks packed, tubes score 2*(3*3+2*3+1*3) = 36 points. The first two minibots score 30 and 20 points, respectively. A good minibot can easily make an alliance.