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MOCK COMPETITION
Picasso-bot entered the mock competition with our preliminary strategy. It traversed the following route by times (it was programmed to go forward for a certain amount of time, make a turn, and then go forward again for another set length of time). Our robot was successful only once. It got stuck in two out of the three matches, but we ended up placing 3rd out of 8 teams and got really cool mini lego sets and extremely funky looking pens.

    
SEEDING
Between the mock competition and the seeding round, we rebuilt our robot with caster wheels to decrease the friction and chances of it getting stuck, but the caster wheels caused the robot to swerve a lot, and we no longer could get our robot to drive straight forwards and backwards. In two rounds, we only obtained a total of 2 points. We tried to make our strategy more sophisticated but it didn’t make a difference because our robot swerved all over the board. 		   

PRELIMINARY COMPETITION
Our robot performed decently in the preliminary competition, although it only scored two points. We successfully pushed 4 balls into our scoring area, and voted 4 red balls. However, our opponent pushed away the 4 red balls that we intended on scoring. We also got stuck against our opponent for a while, but we managed to pull through in the end.

FINAL COMPETITION
We performed very well in the first two rounds, scoring 12 and 11 points respectively and got placed in the top 11 teams. In the first two rounds our opponents were not very strong, and did not obstruct our path. However, we lost our 3rd and 4th round matches because we lost our consistency in scoring the 4 points behind us, and also because our strategy did not allow us to avoid our opponent, and we ran into them.