2016 Battlecry@WPI
From May 21 to May 22, 2016, Morpheus competed at the 17th Battlecry@WPI in Worcester, Massachusetts. Looking to improve from our fantastic performance at the Championship, we set a goal to get our high goal auto finalized by the end of Battlecry. We tweaked the PID after every match to get the high goal auto functioning better. Although we were working on it over the course of the whole event and almost got it up and running, we didn't get our high goal auto fully completed in time for eliminations. Even though we did not get our high goal auto finished, we performed fantastically in each of our matches. In one of our qualification matches, we scored 10 boulders by ourselves into the high goal! This was a new record for our team. After 78 qualification matches, we had 6 wins and 2 losses, which put us in 7th place out of 60 teams going into alliance selection. During alliance selection, we were chosen by Team 2877 (Ligerbots), the third seeded team. Our random pick was Team 1474 (Masterlink Militia). Only the top eight scoring alliances were admitted into the quarterfinals after alliance selection. In order to be one of the alliances moving on, an alliance was required to score 190 points or above in at least one match of the eighth-finals. During our first match of the eighth-finals, our alliance put up an impressive score of 187 points, but this was not enough to guarantee us a spot in the quarterfinals. In our second match of the eighth-finals, we put up a record high score for us: 212 points! This put us in second place going into the quarterfinals. During both of our matches of the quarterfinals, we scored above 200 points, which moved us into the semifinals. Unfortunately, we were eliminated by Alliance 2, which was led by Team 166 (Chop Shop), after two hard-fought matches of the semifinals. Morpheus had a magnificent time at Battlecry, setting several personal records for our team.