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Robotics team continues unbeaten streak!
Robotics team continues unbeaten streak!
On the 28 January, The John Warner School hosted the latest MBDA sponsored Robot Rumble event with fourteen teams from across Hertfordshire competing for a place in this year’s VEX UK National final. The John Warner School has been competing in Robot Rumble competitions since 2012 and were hoping to retain their unbeaten record.
Three teams took part with Ralph, Isabella, Amy, Caitlyn and Ruby from year 7, Matthew, Vlad, Aaron and Harry from year 8 and finally Cem, Charlie and George from year 9. The teams compete under a registered number of 3116W, 3116X and 3116G respectively.
During the course of the competition, the teams had eight qualification rounds before selecting a partner for the final elimination matches. Both the year 8 and year 9 teams had strong showings with year 9 only losing one match due to a disqualification (illegal part on their robot!) and year 8 losing to our own teams in the round robin. The year 7 team were particularly impressive because they started the day without a completed robot and ended the qualification phase with two wins!
In alliance selection, the year 9 would have first choice of team mates and were tempted to pick the second placed year 8 team. At the last moment they changed their mind and opted for the John Henry Newman team, due to their very impressive loading mechanism. This was to set up an exciting home final as both teams breezed through the quarter and semi-finals. The year 9 took an early lead through the autonomous phase but the year 8 slowly started to claw back the advantage. By the end of the match it looked like the only difference would be score bonuses such as parking the robot and this proved to be the case as the year 9 alliance had picked up three bonuses to the year 8’s two. The final score ending 56-40 to the year 9 boys!
The year 9 also picked up the trophy for setting the highest skills score by driving and programming their robot to perform certain tasks. They had the same score as the year 8 but completed the task in fewer attempts.
The final table before alliance selection was as follows:
I’d like to give a big thank you to John Henry Newman and Hitchin Boys who alliance with our team’ in the final and also to MBDA for continuing to support Rumble Rumble each year by supplying robotics kit and mentors for the teams.
Also well done to Dennis and Jessica for announcing during the event, Ethan, Harry and Tegan for technical support, Jacob and James for event organisation and David and Marvin for field resetting. One final thank you to Alex for his amazing music choices during the tense moments of the competition and for being the event sound man.
The semi final ready to be scored by the refs
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