2016 Curie Subdivision

[staplemonx]

8 Team 8 Palo Alto, California
25 Raider Robotix North Brunswick, New Jersey
166 Chop Shop Merrimack, New Hampshire
191 X-CATS Rochester, New York
287 Floyd Mastic Beach, New York
321 RoboLancers Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
339 Kilroy Robotics Stafford, Virginia
379 RoboCats Girard, Ohio
639 Code Red Robotics Ithaca, New York
694 StuyPulse New York, New York
836 The RoboBees Hollywood, Maryland
858 Demons Wyoming, Michigan
876 Thunder Robotics Hatton/Northwood, North Dakota
955 CV Robotics Corvallis, Oregon
1073 The Force Team Hollis, New Hampshire
1089 Team Mercury Hightstown, New Jersey
1123 AIM Robotics Burke (open to all Fairfax & Loudoun County), Virginia
1261 Robo Lions Suwanee, Georgia
1389 The Body Electric Bethesda, Maryland
1511 Rolling Thunder Penfield, New York
1662 Raptor Force Engineering Lodi, California
1868 Space Cookies Moffett Field, California
1885 ILITE Robotics Haymarket, Virginia
1983 Skunk Works Robotics Seattle, Washington
1991 Dragons Hartford, Connecticut
2080 Torbotics Hammond, Louisiana
2168 Aluminum Falcons Groton, Connecticut
2175 The Fighting Calculators Woodbury, Minnesota
2220 Blue Twilight Eagan, Minnesota
2557 SOTAbots Tacoma, Washington
2848 The All Sparks Dallas, Texas
2883 F.R.E.D (Fighting Rednecks Engineering and Design) Warroad, Minnesota
2974 Walton Robotics Marietta , Georgia
2980 The Whidbey Island Wild Cats Oak Harbor, Washington
3005 RoboChargers Dallas, Texas
3147 Munster HorsePower Munster, Indiana
3230 PrototypeX Salt Lake City, Utah
3234 Red Arrows Lowell, Michigan
3310 Black Hawk Robotics Heath, Texas
3339 BumbleB Kfar Yona, HaMerkaz (Central)
3374 RoboBroncs Jackson, Wyoming
3506 YETI Robotics Charlotte, North Carolina
3546 Buc'n'Gears Grand Haven, Michigan
3618 Petoskey Paladins Petoskey, Michigan
3641 The Flying Toasters South Lyon, Michigan
3656 Dreadbots Dexter, Michigan
3770 BlitzCreek Midland, Michigan
3925 Circuit of Life Ventura, California
3930 SMART Spruce Mountain Area Robotics Team Jay, Livermore, Livermore Falls, Maine
3965 Sultans Santee, California
3990 Tech for Kids Montréal, Québec
4010 Nautilus Tlalpan, Distrito Federal
4061 SciBorgs Pullman, Washington
4087 Falcon Robotics New Orleans, Louisiana
4180 Iron Riders Seattle, Washington
4188 Columbus Space Program Columbus, Georgia
4329 Lutheran Roboteers St. Charles, Missouri
4335 Metallic Clouds Waco, Texas
4455 The Burger Bots Warrensburg, Missouri
4469 R.A.I.D. (Raider Artificial Intelligence DIvision) Auburn, Washington
4646 Team ASAP Des Moines, Iowa
4910 East Cobb Robotics Marietta, Georgia
5199 Robot Dolphins From Outer Space Dana Point, California
5279 Bionic Eagles Altavista, Virginia
5406 Celt-X Hamilton, Ontario
5679 Girls on Fire Winston-Salem, North Carolina
5803 Apex Robotics Seatac, Washington
5834 R3P2 Toronto, Ontario
5837 Unity4Tech Waterloo, Iowa
5892 High Energy Houston, Texas
5933 JudgeMent Call Salt lake City, Utah
5940 B.R.E.A.D. Burlingame, California
5976 CyberSaders Waukesha, Wisconsin
6016 Tiger Robotics Hackettstown, New Jersey
6034 Eagle Storms Florissant, Missouri

[frcguy]

So stoked! This is going to be a fun one.

[IG100MagnaGuard]

I look forward to seeing everyone there! (And seeing your robots :cool:)

[MikLast]

Curie has some good potential. Good luck to all teams (and especially PNW teams!) competing next week!

[Lili_1868]

So excited! :D

[Amit3339]

Team 3339 is excited to breach and capture the tower with all of the teams in Curie. Good luck to all of the teams!

Now for the real deal... with 5 days before the vhapionship what is your bet for the 2016 Curie subdivision?

[TAlholm]

Team 1991 surely is excited, and we hope our improvements will mix this division up a bit. From the looks, this is going to be a tough division to play in.

[MxMarkov]

Team 3374 us thrilled to be competing with y'all.

[Reptilefox]

PrototypeX (3230) is very excited to compete in Curie again!!! Looking forward to it!

[arpita]

Team 694 (StuyPulse) is looking forward to competing with everyone and ogling over your robots!

[Connor McBride]

166 is very excited to play with all of you! Good luck to everyone!

-Connor

[Gearheads1]

Team 4455, The Burger Bots, is honored to be part of the Curie Division and is looking forward to having a great competition with y'all. Best wishes to all teams for a great event!

[Hurband]

IA Regional Rookie All Star Team 5837 Unity4Tech is pumped to be playing on Curie with some great teams including fellow IA Team 4646 ASAP.

[Bevo120]

Team 4335 the Metallic Clouds is very excited to participate in the Curie division with some familiar faces. Super excited to have another Girl Scout team with us in our division. Just want to say good luck to the Space Cookies and everyone else in the Curie division.

[The Sofa]

Can't wait for 5940 to join this with everyone :)

[Gravity]

Another 5940 representative here! We are heavily invested at the moment to get scouting data compiled for each Curie participant. If anyone is interested in discussing tactics for this division/strategy in general, feel free to shoot me a PM!

- Gravity

[nuggetsyl]

I would like to see people post who they think the top 8 are in this division.

[Hadi379]

379 is looking forward to competing in curie again, good luck to all teams this upcoming week!!

[Dave McLaughlin]

I would like to see people post who they think the top 8 are in this division.

Top 8 robots based on performance, or top 8 ranked robots after quals?

[Brian Maher]

I would like to see people post who they think the top 8 are in this division.

Here are OPR-based predictions (http://frc.divisions.co/division/Curie/rankings) for rankings in the division. Take these with a grain of salt; this year isn't a stellar year for OPR. YMMV.

[z4t143]

Team 4329, The Lutheran Roboteers, are thrilled to be part of the 2016 edition of Curie and to unleash "Trogdor the Burninator" https://www.facebook.com/294264287303484/photos/a.318687968194449.76624.294264287303484/1072746796121892/?type=3

As we breach and capture our way to the finals. Good luck to all!

[Chi Meson]

Here are OPR-based predictions (http://frc.divisions.co/division/Curie/rankings) for rankings in the division. Take these with a grain of salt; this year isn't a stellar year for OPR. YMMV.

I thought our schedule looked a bit difficult, now it's officially "most difficult in Curie." Yay.

Hey Scouts....

[BenGuy]

Team 3641, The Flying Toasters, looks forward to competing with all of you in Curie division.

[staplemonx]

I would like to see people post who they think the top 8 are in this division.

Here is our top list in order of performance


5803
3310
1983
2175
3339
166
339
955
3641
4469
1511
2848
25
1261
3230
3506

[Golfer4646]

Here is our top list in order of performance


5803
3310
1983
2175
3339
166
339
955
3641
4469
1511
2848
25
1261
3230
3506


Personal opinion: 3990 (Tech for Kids) should be highly considered for any list of the top teams in the Curie Division. I was also impressed by the performance that 876 (Thunder Robotics) had at the Central Illinois Regional.

[kyle_hamblett]

1073 is excited to be playing with everyone on Curie! Wednesday cannot come fast enough! There are going to be some intense battles. Good luck everyone!

[Jay O'Donnell]

Here is our top list in order of performance


5803
3310
1983
2175
3339
166
339
955
3641
4469
1511
2848
25
1261
3230
3506


3990 and 2168 should be on that list, and not at the bottom of it.

[Brian Maher]

Personal opinion: 3990 (Tech for Kids) should be highly considered for any list of the top teams in the Curie Division. I was also impressed by the performance that 876 (Thunder Robotics) had at the Central Illinois Regional.

3990 and 2168 should be on that list, and not at the bottom of it.

I strongly agree that 3990 will be one of Curie's top teams. At Tech Valley, they were one of the most consistent shooters and climbers. They seeded third and were picked by the #1 seed, 359, and they dominated in elims.

[staplemonx]

Personal opinion: 3990 (Tech for Kids) should be highly considered for any list of the top teams in the Curie Division. I was also impressed by the performance that 876 (Thunder Robotics) had at the Central Illinois Regional.

When we change our calcs focus more on OPR we get a list that concurs more with some of the other lists.

3339
3641
3990
2557
3310
5803
1983
858
166
25
321
2175
1511
639
1089
5406


Our first list was focused more on probable ranking points at the end of each match.

[Brian Maher]

Our first list was focused more on probable ranking points at the end of each match.

The issue with using qualification rank to assess team strength is that strength of schedule and luck with alliance partners can bias results. Just last weekend, 1257 seeded 52nd of 60 teams at MAR CMP. We averaged of five low goals in a match, and maximum of seven, but had bad luck in quals with alliance partners losing comms and such. 225 (who told me their scouting does not consider qualification rank) and 341 picked us for what we could do, and we won the event.

[Greg Needel]

The issue with using qualification rank to assess team strength is that strength of schedule and luck with alliance partners can bias results. Just last weekend, 1257 seeded 52nd of 60 teams at MAR CMP. We averaged of five low goals in a match, and maximum of seven, but had bad luck in quals with alliance partners losing comms and such. 225 (who told me their scouting does not consider qualification rank) and 341 picked us for what we could do, and we won the event.

This is exactly my problem with all of the pre-scouting ranks, especially if you use OPR. None of them assess individual robot ability relative to the other teams in the division. Since OPR is based on the performance relative to the individual event, you seeded #1 at a week event then you will have a high OPR if you seeded #13 at MSC yours will be lower. Which of those teams has a better robot? Were events primarily won by low goal bots or was it a high goal shoot out?

My strong recommendation to all the teams looking at the division is to WATCH MATCHES. Make your own determination as to the scoring capacity of each team, and do your ranks that way.

I would prefer to see the list of "best high goal shooters", "best low goal shooters", "best autonomous modes" teams with most consistent hangers, etc.


I know much of these public lists are just time killers waiting on Wednesday, so it doesn't matter much. I would just be hesitant to use any of this for pre-match strategy if you expect good results.

[Bevo120]

Team #4335 Metallic Clouds wishes everyone safe travels to First Championships.... Weather looks terrible Tuesday over the Midwest. (We are driving the tornado route from Waco Texas to St. Louis.) Please be careful and we can't wait to meet you!

[pavong]

Our first list was focused more on probable ranking points at the end of each match.

Us not showing up on that list makes perfect sense as we only managed to capture and obtain all 4 ranking points in a single one of our 9 matches at the Montreal regional.

[mackenzieg]

Team 1261 is excited to be in Curie this year!

If you're interested in our robot, feel free to check out our new and improved reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVnNrP4vO7A

______________________
Mackenzie Glaser
Robo Lions 1261

[Ben Martin]

The issue with using qualification rank to assess team strength is that strength of schedule and luck with alliance partners can bias results. Just last weekend, 1257 seeded 52nd of 60 teams at MAR CMP. We averaged of five low goals in a match, and maximum of seven, but had bad luck in quals with alliance partners losing comms and such. 225 (who told me their scouting does not consider qualification rank) and 341 picked us for what we could do, and we won the event.

We calculated an average of 5.5 low goals

Curie teams, be wary. I knew these guys were our top low goal bot after 25 on Friday night, and I thought we might have a shot at playing with them because people would overvalue shooting and scaling (and I was right). Somebody is going to snatch them up if you don't, and if they play defense again, you'll be on the receiving end. Top-notch play, watch the MAR Champs playoffs.

[Kristian Calhoun]

We calculated an average of 5.5 low goals

Curie teams, be wary. I knew these guys were our top low goal bot after 25 on Friday night, and I thought we might have a shot at playing with them because people would overvalue shooting and scaling (and I was right). Somebody is going to snatch them up if you don't, and if they play defense again, you'll be on the receiving end. Top-notch play, watch the MAR Champs playoffs.
Curie teams have nothing to fear—1257 is in Archimedes. :)

[Ben Martin]

Curie teams have nothing to fear—1257 is in Archimedes. :)

My bad :rolleyes:

[OccamzRazor]

This is going to be a blast! So...what is the plan to beat Newton division? :)

[Greg Needel]

This is going to be a blast! So...what is the plan to beat Newton division? :)

The newton finals should be so intense that maybe all the robots will be tired by the time they get to Einstein, so it will be easy to beat sleepy robots :D

[Ryan Dognaux]

4329 is looking forward to playing with and against a bunch of teams we've never met before!

Though we didn't have much time for improvements, we've made a few that focus on reducing our cycle times and improving our high goal shot consistency.

We also only weigh 90 pounds, use the kit bot chassis and already use pneumatics. We think we'd be a great robot for cheesecake and are always open to discussing this with teams. We have a hang / defense module of our own as well but it takes away our low bar capability.

http://i.imgur.com/SzqpywJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ux4BbVR.jpg

See you all in a few days! Feel free to stop by and say hi.

[b1nary]

4329 is looking forward to playing with and against a bunch of teams we've never met before!

Though we didn't have much time for improvements, we've made a few that focus on reducing our cycle times and improving our high goal shot consistency.

We also only weigh 90 pounds, use the kit bot chassis and already use pneumatics. We think we'd be a great robot for cheesecake and are always open to discussing this with teams. We have a hang / defense module of our own as well but it takes away our low bar capability.

See you all in a few days! Feel free to stop by and say hi.

bump! looking forward to meeting new people and robots. (:

[OccamzRazor]

4329 is looking forward to playing with and against a bunch of teams we've never met before!

Though we didn't have much time for improvements, we've made a few that focus on reducing our cycle times and improving our high goal shot consistency.

We also only weigh 90 pounds, use the kit bot chassis and already use pneumatics. We think we'd be a great robot for cheesecake and are always open to discussing this with teams. We have a hang / defense module of our own as well but it takes away our low bar capability.

http://i.imgur.com/SzqpywJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ux4BbVR.jpg

See you all in a few days! Feel free to stop by and say hi.


Looks like your robot has a nice flat space for an extra climber......I wonder if anyone in Curie is bringing one of those:rolleyes:

Our entire system weighs 15lbs, has successfully been cheesecaked one time after passing inspection this season, and can lift a 160 pound bot. If our alliance partner had made it to the batter during finals in the NC Campbell event I feel it would have worked great for them like it has for us.

[Charles Boehm]

Team 2175 is excited to compete with all of the Curie division. Lots of new teams to meet(all but 2 for me; shout out to my MN friends 2220 and 2883!)

[BethMo]

4329 is looking forward to playing with and against a bunch of teams we've never met before!

Those are some awesome pictures, Ryan! They're going in my "show relatives what this game is about" folder.

[JohnSchneider]

This is going to be a blast! So...what is the plan to beat Newton division? :)


2013 curie was pretty stacked...

[northstardon]

This is going to be a blast! So...what is the plan to beat Newton division? :)

No worries...to beat Newton, all Curie has to do is reuse whatever master plan is developed to first beat Carver (e.g. 1114 and/or 2481). ;)

[Ryan Dognaux]

Looks like your robot has a nice flat space for an extra climber......

Swing on by our pit and let's swap cheesecake recipes :]

[Bob Steele]

Just wanted to mention some quality teams from the PNW playing on Curie.

Team 4061 has a wicked low goal shooter and is very quick and driven well.
They have a great drive team and are very easy and fun to work with.https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/4061/2016
on winning alliance at Central Washington

Team 4469 https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/4469/2016
Nice consistent High Goal Shooter and knows how to play in elimination rounds.
Part of winning alliance at the Auburn District event and the PNW District Championship

Team 5803 https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/5803/2016
Super Rookie that can breach everything and low goal score and scale.
#1 seed in the PNW District Championship, on winning alliance at Philomath



oh yea... I forgot... we are ready to STINK IT UP AGAIN on Curie.... it should be a fun ride!!

[staplemonx]

It looks like we may actually climb at worlds...http://team1389.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Maelstrom.jpg

[b1nary]

It looks like we may actually climb at worlds...
great picture. looking forward to seeing this.

[LightningRacer]

Team 5803 Apex Robotics checking in, we're thrilled to get to play with some super awesome teams at worlds! We're especially glad to be playing alongside some fellow PNW teams; 1983, 2557, 955, 2980, 4061, and 4180!

Our team has made a brief PNW Season Recap video showcasing our team and our robot, SUBZ3R°. Enjoy!

link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeW7VeG9Ng

Good luck all! We look forward to playing with you all on Curie!

[xman206]

This is going to be so much fun!

[Hadi379]

Team 379 would like to put some information about our team out there ahead of the championships:

Info sheet (We will be passing these out to all team)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0hDIhiHTFjcV05kS1FheDhuY2c/view?usp=sharing

Pre-Championship Autonomous Routine Videos:

https://youtu.be/-SKlvO0OLA4?list=PLB-5x1eIN6Y96bz2063OBwb4poddE_fpi

2016 Midwest Regional Recap Video:

https://youtu.be/grLxSGyUTKs



Thanks again, and good luck to all teams competing at champs!

[Citrus Dad]

Just wanted to mention some quality teams from the PNW playing on Curie.
oh yea... I forgot... we are ready to STINK IT UP AGAIN on Curie.... it should be a fun ride!!

Just wish you were on Hopper with us this year again...:mad:

[VexisDarksteele]

It's good to see a number of FiM teams I recognize (aside from the Toasters), and several I don't yet know, representing our state in this division. Looking forward to watching the webcast this week; this college student is stuck in the dreaded thing known as finals week and unfortunately can't be there in person. :p

Good luck everyone!

[Bob Steele]

Just wish you were on Hopper with us this year again...:mad:

We love playing with you guys too. Best of luck to you!!!

[Koko Ed]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154230492499444&set=pcb.10154230494434444&type=3&theater

[Ryan Dognaux]

What a great last couple of days. Good luck to all the teams tomorrow morning!

A huge shout out to 4061 for lending us some alcohol solution which dramatically improved our shooter's performance. We hit 5 / 5 high goals in our final qualification match today - https://youtu.be/0py3EN5nix0

Last second cool buzzer beater shot - https://youtu.be/Txs2LMiHqdA?t=2m20s

Lifting mechanism on the practice field - https://youtu.be/KytaHdrZijQ

[frcguy]

As our printer couldn't make the trek from California, I've attached out robot information sheet for other teams interested in us to look at. It has our general match strategies, statistics and component lists, and more. Feel free to ask here or stop by our pit if you have any more questions about our team or robot!

Summery: We are a low bar capable robot that can cross Class B and D defenses quickly and efficiently in both teleop and auto, and we can accurately shoot into the low goal 5-6 times per match and/or keep high goal shooters supplied with boulders. We also have a blocker constructed and can play defense. Like I said, if you have any questions ask away!

[TheBoulderite]

...

Wow. I can't say I've ever heard of or seen a #8 seed win any event, regional, district event, DCMP, or division. This alliance may have made history. Congratulations to teams 694, 3339, 379, and 1511 on winning Curie! Good luck on Einsteins!

[Connor McBride]

...

Wow. I can't say I've ever heard of or seen a #8 seed win any event, regional, district event, DCMP, or division. This alliance may have made history. Congratulations to teams 694, 3339, 379, and 1511 on winning Curie! Good luck on Einsteins!

In 2007 an 8th seed alliance won Einstein.

-Connor

[Ryan Dognaux]

Just wanted to say thank you to teams 25, 2848 & 1885 for being great alliance partners. This was 4329's second trip to worlds and the first time we've ever played in eliminations at the championship. To say it was a big deal would be putting it mildly.

Looking forward to Missouri state champs in a few weeks!

[george.tan]

Thought I'll share this

https://youtu.be/cwUf11Usdo0

[ObeyQuietKoala]

Thought I'll share this

https://youtu.be/cwUf11Usdo0

That was a fun match to drive in.

[Amit3339]

After landing back in Israel team 3339 would like to thank all of the team for making this event to such a great one!
A special thanks goes to our alliance partners:

Team 694 for believing in us enough for picking us as their first pick. You guys had an elegant robot that could score those 5 points quickly, not to mention your kind team members and mentors that supported us even though we had some issues. You guys rock!

Team 379 had and amazing robot that could literally score from anywhere on the field. you had amazing people both on the crowd and on the field. I can't believe we got you as a second pick! that was unbelievable.

Team 1511, even though you guys didn't hit on the field you were always ready to take the next match! with such an amazing machine and team members you took a big part in our journey to Einstein!

and of course we can't forget the Finalists that played incredible matches and the only thing to separate between our score we 1 and 2 points!
Well done Teams: 3005-876-2557-4061.
Can't wait to see what the next championship will bring to us!

[John Leonard]

That was a fun match to drive in.

Thanks for the assistance!


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChPr8WAUYAA4a2Y.jpg