3 Questions!!! (1/20/04)

[Andy Grady]

Hi all, here are today's 3 questions...

1. What team won the national championship for Hexagon Havoc?

2. What was the last year that untethered projectiles were allowed?

3. What pop singer performed at the closing of the 2002 National Championship event?

[Joe Ross]

Tigerbolt

1997 for robot parts. Robots threw balls in 2002 and bins in 2003.

Mandy Moore

[Dave Flowerday]

1. RIT & Edison Tech

2. Hmm... I think it was 1995

3. Mandy Moore

[Karthik]

Wow, you guys are quick.

1. Harris Corporation/RIT & Edison Technical School (Now Team #73)
2. 1996
3. Mandy Moore

[Joe Ross]

Can't anyone agree on a year ;)

Anyway. Tigerbolt's national championship robot (which was Harris/RIT & Edison Tech as Karthik said) is being retrofitted with the year's control system by the current team 73 (Visioneers, Bausch & Lomb/RIT & Edison Tech) to let the electrical and controls team get more experience and to help prototype some mechanisms.

Tigerbolt shall live again!

[Andy Baker]

1. Tigerbolt
2. 1992 - our team had a air cannon which shot a small cage to the 10 point tennis ball. This design not only caused FIRST to disallow this sort of projectile action, but it also disallowed custom pneumatics (we made our own air pump). My current boss, Tim Garner, designed this system.
3. Mandy Moore

Andy B.

[Raul]

1: Tigerbolt

2: 1992 - I'll believe Andy B. I know 1997 was the last time they allowed any unthethered devices to separate from the robot. But unthethered projectiles were not allowed other than the scoring objects.

3: Mandy Moore

[Chris Hibner]

1. Tigerbolt. I remember their robot from the small parts catalog, but I don't remember the sponsor and school name.

2. In 1997 you were allowed to leave pieces of your robot behind, but I don't know about projectiles.

3. Mandy Moore. She's from Florida, so that was a logical choice given the location of the event.

[ColleenShaver]

1. Harris/RIT - Tigerbolt
2. 1992, cause I know all the videos from 1993 have tethered projectiles
3. Mandy Moore. And the residue from the fireworks caused some of our students to set off the 'shoe bomb' threat at the airport.

[Dave Flowerday]

Regarding question 2, doesn't anyone remember the robot in 1995 that looked like of like a trampoline and flung little triangular-shaped land mines all over the field? I believe it was Tech Force. A neighboring team of mine also did this (Prince/West Ottawa, now team #141).

[gsensel]

1. Tigerbolt
2. 1995
3. Mandy Moore

[Mike Soukup]

1. Tigerbolt, currently team 73. They had a great mechanism that picked up a single big ball or multiple small balls & dumped them in the goal.

2. 1997

3. Mandy Moore

[Tom]

Andy the three answers are:

1.) Tigerbolt

2.) 1993 - White PVC field goal urights right into the balls in the middle of the field and into Black Beauty. Colleen I am ashamed!!!

3.) Mandy Moore

[Andy Grady]

Todays Answers...

1. Harris/RIT and Edison Tech High School, Tigerbolt

2. Ok, what I meant was the last year that FIRST allowed you to detach parts from your robot. I will accept either 1997 or 1992 for this.

3. Mandy Moore

Today's winner is Joe Ross, good job!

Standings to be posted later.