Carver Division 2015

[Rob3653]

Info can be found here:
http://championship-notifier.evanforbes.net:3000/division/Carver

This will be exciting! :)

[Rachel Lim]

1868 is excited to be part of this new division!

Here's the team list:

66 The Flyers
71 Team Hammond
75 RoboRaiders
126 Gael Force
128 The Botcats
144 The R.O.C.K
172 Northern Force
193 MORT Beta
216 More RoboDawgs
233 The Pink Team
329 Raiders
337 Hard Working Hard Hats
359 Hawaiian Kids
368 Team Kika Mana
585 Cyber Penguins
771 SWAT
829 Digital Goats
971 Spartan Robotics
1024 Kil-A-Bytes
1208 Metool Brigade
1369 Minotaur
1425 Error Code Xero
1592 Bionic Tigers
1625 Winnovation
1717 D'Penguineers
1718 The Fighting Pi
1768 Robo Chiefs
1868 Space Cookies
1884 Griffins
1986 Team Titanium
2130 Alpha+
2337 EngiNERDs
2491 No Mythic
2630 Thunderbolts
2648 Infinite Loop
2767 Stryke Force
2834 Bionic Black Hawks
2852 DM High Voltage
2876 Devilbotz
3140 Flagship
3324 The Metrobots
3352 Flaming Monkeys 4-H Robotics Club
3419 RoHawks
3504 Girls of Steel
3507 Ubotics
3512 Spartatroniks
3536 Electro Eagles
3566 Gone Fishin'
3653 BotCats
3721 Charger Robotics
3802 RoboPOP
3844 Kentucky Wildbots
3881 WHEA Sharkbots
4001 Retro-Rams
4039 MakeShift Robotics
4183 Bit Buckets
4253 TAS Robotics
4381 Twisted Devils
4384 Benzene Bots
4536 MinuteBots
4721 Tiger Bots
4911 CyberKnights
4915 Spartronics
4945 Titanium-Wrecks
4967 That ONE Team - Our Next Engineers
5260 Owosso Operating System
5291 Emperius
5402 Iron Kings
5431 Titan Robotics
5437 Rocky Balboabots
5442 Mechanical Monarchy
5458 Digital Minds
5465 BinaryBots
5515 Blue Power Robotics
5546 A.R.T.
5689 CK Cyber Pack

[Broboraider]

Team 75 is looking forward to playing with and against all the great teams on the Carver field

[Dave Campbell]

This division ROCKS! So happy that 144 can play with the great teams of Carver!

[Alpha Beta]

What a fantastic set of teams!!!

Team Titanium (FRC 1986) is looking forward to stealing and stacking alongside the rest of this fine sub-division.

Oh, don't bother timing our can stealers from any formerly released videos. There was a significant margin of safety in our regional edition that we are comfortable trimming down for champs. ;) Time to 'splode some cans. :D

[Jarren Harkema]

This looks to be the most balanced division there is. It's going to be a tough playoff! Look forward to seeing and playing with all of you!

[Sperkowsky]

329 along with the Griffins two great teams with really cool pits.

[Matt_Boehm_329]

Who else in the division will be joining us in the the 1/2 second can theft auto club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5YpXlQ5ia8

[z_beeblebrox]

Looking forward to competing with everyone...

Add 4183 to the potential super-fast can grabbers list!

[George Nishimura]

Personally I'm pretty excited to be in a division with (and close pit-wise) to two of my favourite FRC teams 1986 and 1717.

Also looking forward to see our friends at Makeshift again, plus meet and play with a whole bunch of teams we've never met before (esp. the West Coast and Hawaiian teams - we might not get to play with you again!)

It looks like it'll be a competitive division too. Can't wait.

[TitanMom]

Rookie Team 5431 is looking forward to meeting you all! We have a super stacking robot and can not wait to get to St Louis ... any advice from veterans would be great!! See you in week!

[nixiebunny]

Rookie Team 5431 is looking forward to meeting you all! We have a super stacking robot and can not wait to get to St Louis ... any advice from veterans would be great!! See you in week!

Advice? Enjoy yourselves. Don't expect to win anything else. The championships is the reward for the hard work you did up until now.

[Romano2630]

Team 2630, from israel, is really excited to play alongside all those cool teams on Carver division. It is going to be a blast! :D

[rberglund]

Team 1369 traveling from Tampa is excited about competing in Carver Division

[Kevin Ray]

Romano 2630
Being that you're from abroad, Israel, do you need batteries? If so, we're bringing 6 extras for any team who needs them. We won't be able to lend chargers though, as we are already lending the extra charger cart to 1156 from Brazil. Let us know, we're bringing them anyway.

[Romano2630]

Romano 2630
Being that you're from abroad, Israel, do you need batteries? If so, we're bringing 6 extras for any team who needs them. We won't be able to lend chargers though, as we are already lending the extra charger cart to 1156 from Brazil. Let us know, we're bringing them anyway.
Yes! We'd love that! Thank you very much! :)

[Caleb Sykes]

4536 will be happy to be in the inaugural Carver division. We're hoping for lots of partners that are good RC cappers!

Also, add these cool banners to your signature: http://i.imgur.com/Os2oTET.jpg
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[idahorobot]

Looking forward to Carver!

[Team3844]

Team 3844 was just going through our championship inventory and realized we left our battery charger in the shop. does any one in Carver have a spare charger they could loan out?

[Alpha Beta]

On behalf of 1986, Team Titanium, I wanted to give some shout-outs on the Carver Division.

First off, the FTA's were amazing and took extensive time to ensure that robots connected to the field. At one point in an elimination match they even caught a camera bandwidth problem before the match started. These guys were proactive instead of reactive. Loved it. I wish every struggling team who wants to blame the FMS for their connection woes could work with this fine staff and find the real source of their troubles. (Thank you for following us back to our pit to diagnose a gyro issue with our autonomous. Above and beyond my expectations.)

The Referee's were fantastic too. I've been at regionals where the refs explicitly state that any doubt (often created by poor sight lines) in regards to a 20 point auto or hand placement on the chute door would be ruled against the team. Here it felt like the benefit of the doubt always went in the team's favor and the refs were trying their hardest to fairly enforce the rules without being adversarial. (By the way, thank you for letting 193 play in our first QF.)

Carver had some great depth and a couple truly outstanding competitors. 971 had an amazing machine that finished qualifications in dominant fashion. Fastest stacker in the division, and we all knew they were working on a wicked fast can stealer in the pits. The #1 seed was well deserved. 1717 and 368 were two other dominant machines that smoothly turned the landfill into 3 capped stacks. It was a pleasure to watch you all in action.

Our scouts and strategists tagged (1.) Fast Can Burglar, (2.) Able to use tipped cans, and (3.) At least 2 full stacks as the minimum skill set needed to make our short list for #1 pick. Only 5 teams fit that mold and we were thrilled to invite 1625, Winnovation to join our alliance. Their ability to cap a 6 stack also served as a nice insurance policy if a can rolled off. They turned out to be everything we hoped for plus they tossed in a tethered ramp for bonus. It was an honor to finally get to play together.

4253, TAS Robotics out of Taipei, Taiwan had a fantastic internal ramp, could put up 2 stacks, and avoided the complications of a tether. There were a couple of teams with that skill set left, but what sealed the selection for us was their dominant human player. Very pleased to invite an international presence to our alliance.

MORT Beta, 193 was a steal with our final selection. Who would have thought that 2 solid stacks would still be available that late in the draft. 3rd pick of the #3 alliance just like MORT, 11 on Hopper. Also a big part of helping our alliance set the high score in the first round of quarter finals. Bragging rights back home?

Opening eliminations with a 225 (a feat topped only twice during Carver eliminations) validated everything the scouts had hoped for in assembling this alliance. Unfortunately all 3 robots had a mechanical malfunction in our 2nd quarterfinal and the hit to the average score was fatal. While a best 2 out of 3 format might have allowed us to live another day, having the most consistent machines advance also seems just.

Best of luck to everyone in the off-season. We had a great time on Carver.

[Team3844]

Is there video posted of the qualification matches and finals matches on Carver? we need to go back and analyze our matches.

[ThunderChief]

You can find a summary of Championship video links posted so far at:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1480890&postcount=3 :cool: