Archimedes 2009

[Alex Dinsmoor]

So who is excited? :)

We all know that we will win on Einstien this year :D

[dodar]

Archimedes all the way! lol

[Alex Dinsmoor]

Archimedes all the way! lol

You know it! It's going to be INSANE this year!

[EricLeifermann]

I'm excited! Been hoping with my buddies on 2826 that we could get into the same division. It makes it even sweeter that 93 is in it too, seeing as we(my buddies and I) are alumni of 93.

[jgannon]

All three members of the alliance that won Pittsburgh (222, 1218, 1743) will be on Archimedes. Should be fun!

[Josh Drake]

Metal-in-Motion is super excited to be in this division. Here's a picture of our bot. See everybody next week!

[dodar]

ARCHI!!!

[camtunkpa]

medes ;)

222 is excited to be in Archimedes along with our Pittsburgh alliance partners 1218 and 1743. Archimedes is an interesting field at a glance....can't wait to see everyone in Atlanta

[Novi Hopper]

Most of Frog Force just got off the phone with each other, and we're all pumped for next week. This is gonna be fun!

And remember: we're a Force to be reckoned with.

[Tyler Olds]

Lets get ready to rumble!!!!!! It's great to be with my old team and sister team 93 as well as 857!

[HashemReza]

Looking forward to it. Good luck everyone.

[Brandon Holley]

125 is excited to be archimedes!

[soccerchapo12]

good luck to team 2543!
from 1332

[BenB]

Heres the list:

39
48
61
93
107
118
120
125
155
176
180
201
222
231
280
314
343
353
386
433
488
492
503
533
548
558
573
585
604
624
665
692
714
811
857
868
931
1002
1014
1114
1218
1266
1289
1302
1334
1341
1390
1421
1503
1535
1538
1555
1561
1592
1649
1712
1739
1743
1746
1807
1834
1986
1987
2056
2070
2075
2169
2220
2340
2354
2415
2470
2486
2543
2587
2655
2753
2779
2813
2826
2848
2874
2915
3009
3020
3062
3091

1114 and 2056 finally together in a division... I can't wait

[AcesPease]

Aces are here... with a couple surprises!

[Chris is me]

Lets get ready to rumble!!!!!! It's great to be with my old team and sister team 93 as well as 857!

But not us ;_;

Anyhow, this looks like the division I'm envying a little, because a lot of cool teams (93, 2826, 1986) from the 10,000 Lakes Regional that I was hoping would be in the same divison as us are in here. Good luck to you three!

[RMS11]

Team 2415 the WiredCats is super-excited!

[Travis Hoffman]

Team 48 will be in Archimedes for the first time since Disney, I think, and will give it our best. Good luck to all.

[Alex Dinsmoor]

ARCHI!!!

MEDES

It seams that there are a lot of good teams that are going to be here in Medes. I think that this will be the most competitive division out there.

And how many teams are from each state/country? I just want to see the spread?

[Pat Fairbank]

Team 48 will be in Archimedes for the first time since Disney, I think, and will give it our best. Good luck to all.
2005 (https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort=teamnum&year=2005&event=cmp), actually.

[Josh Drake]

[QUOTE=Alex Dinsmoor;847631And how many teams are from each state/country? I just want to see the spread?[/QUOTE]

We'll be representing the state to the East (SC). Only a couple hours away! Looks like 4 teams from the host state, and 7 from the South (FL). Good luck to all. Just think, next week at this time we'll be getting ready to uncrate the creations.

[LDavies562]

And how many teams are from each state/country? I just want to see the spread?No teams from outside Canada/US, but still a diverse field. Here's the breakdown:

Michigan 9
California 9
Florida 7
Pennyslvania 6
Ontario, Canada 5
New Jersey 5
Texas 5
Missouri 4
Georgia 4
Ohio 3
Massachusetts 3
New York 3
Oklahoma 3
Minnesota 3
Connecticut 3
Washington 2
Indiana 2
Arizona 2
Wisconsin 2
Nevada 1
Mississippi 1
Oregon 1
South Carolina 1
Illinois 1
New Hampshire 1
North Carolina 1

For a total of 87 teams.

[jgannon]

Here (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=39.027719,-95.625&spn=31.26361,69.785156&z=5&msid=107829457338109390621.00046710b82de16d82abd) is a map I threw together of all the teams in Archimedes.

[Travis Hoffman]

2005 (https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort=teamnum&year=2005&event=cmp), actually.

Thanks....I try to blank that year in Atlanta from my memory if at all possible. I just lost the game. :-P

[Alex Dinsmoor]

No teams from outside Canada/US, but still a diverse field. Here's the breakdown:

Michigan 9
California 9
Florida 7
Pennyslvania 6
Ontario, Canada 5
New Jersey 5
Texas 5
Missouri 4
Georgia 4
Ohio 3
Massachusetts 3
New York 3
Oklahoma 3
Minnesota 3
Connecticut 3
Washington 2
Indiana 2
Arizona 2
Wisconsin 2
Nevada 1
Mississippi 1
Oregon 1
South Carolina 1
Illinois 1
New Hampshire 1
North Carolina 1

For a total of 87 teams.

Here is the ratios and percentages of teams from that state compared to overall:

Ranked by number of teams attending from that state


Michigan 9/43 21%
California 9/33 27%
Florida 7/15 47%
Pennyslvania 6/9 33%
Ontario, Canada 5/12 42%
New Jersey 5/20 25%
Texas 5/14 36%
Missouri 4/9 44%
Georgia 4/8 50%
Ohio 3/7 43%
Massachusetts 3/9 33%
New York 3/28 11%
Oklahoma 3/7 43%
Minnesota 3/5 60%
Connecticut 3/15 20%
Washington 2/6 33%
Indiana 2/11 18%
Arizona 2/8 25%
Wisconsin 2/8 25%
Nevada 1/3 33%
Mississippi 1/4 25%
Oregon 1/6 17%
South Carolina 1/4 25%
Illinois 1/6 17%
New Hampshire 1/6 17%
North Carolina 1/3 33%


And by percentage of Atlanta attending teams:


Minnesota 3/5 60%
Georgia 4/8 50%
Florida 7/15 47%
Missouri 4/9 44%
Oklahoma 3/7 43%
Ohio 3/7 43%
Ontario, Canada 5/12 42%
Texas 5/14 36%
Pennsylvania 6/9 33%
Massachusetts 3/9 33%
Washington 2/6 33%
Nevada 1/3 33%
North Carolina 1/3 33%
California 9/33 27%
New Jersey 5/20 25%
Arizona 2/8 25%
Wisconsin 2/8 25%
Mississippi 1/4 25%
South Carolina 1/4 25%
Michigan 9/43 21%
Connecticut 3/15 20%
Indiana 2/11 18%
Oregon 1/6 17%
Illinois 1/6 17%
New Hampshire 1/6 17%
New York 3/28 11%


It's interesting about the spread of a state's teams. We are seeing many states with 40%+ of their teams in Archi.

[EricLeifermann]

Hey Alex 6/9 = 66% not 33%, simple mistake no big deal. That is some cool information. Now we need to see how each team team ranked in their state. Its easy for the MI teams its at www.firstinmichigan.org. Who wants to do the work to see how everyone else ranks?

[cziggy343]

personally, i am very excited about going to atlanta again (as the driver this time;) ) i hope that we get to meet many new teams this year!

and next week just cant come fast enough:P

[dodar]

I know the feeling you got, i joined in o7 and since then i wanted to be on the drive team
now being on the biggest stage for robotics, I FINALLY get to travel down the mysterious path for robots because they seemed to travel like a mile in 2 minutes between the pits and the fields lol :D

[cziggy343]

I know the feeling you got, i joined in o7 and since then i wanted to be on the drive team
now being on the biggest stage for robotics, I FINALLY get to travel down the mysterious path for robots because they seemed to travel like a mile in 2 minutes between the pits and the fields lol :D

yeah... it is a terribly long walk... first year as driver, but last year i was robocoach:P but it is a really fun experience, and i hope that you thouroughly enjoy it. because in my opinion, the clumination of the season ending at the georgia dome is a great experience no matter how many times that i have been!

[dodar]

I have been twice and both times I was in awe, first i was a scouter my freshman year, sitting next to teams that were from 1992 and ones that had won regionals and championships divisions and the championship and we almost won our division in ATL and last year i was a major pit crew mechanic and it was AMAZING being in the pits and walking around "scouting" in the pits and seeing all these ungodly robots up close in person, this year is even better cause i can walk right up to them and talk to their drivers and watch them up close in person( and score in them) :cool:

[burlymon33]

The CocoNuts can hardly contain theri excitment for this competition it will be epic! It is great to be representing Arizona with Team 39, you guys are awesome! I wish I could just skip the next week! Only 7 DAYS!!!

Tell your human play to study The Quadrature of the Porabola: proven by Archimedes! Haha!

[cziggy343]

Tell your human play to study The Quadrature of the Porabola: proven by Archimedes! Haha!

ahh... the archimedes allusions have already started:p

ARCHI!

[iVanDuzer]

MEDES!!!

But seriously, if Archimedes wins Einstein this year, the winning teams all have to shout "Eureka!"
(not sure if this has been done before, but it'd be really cool to witness)

[Jimmy K]

I'll try to get the rest of the CircuitRunners to do that.

[PlatyPi Gunner]

Team 2655 Flying PlatyPi is ready to rumble!!! and our buds 2415 are there too!

[RMS11]

Team 2655 Flying PlatyPi is ready to rumble!!! and our buds 2415 are there too!

Maybe we can make another 8th seed run :) Cept' 832 wont b there to join us...:( Either way i am super excited!!!

[PlatyPi Gunner]

Maybe we can make another 8th seed run :) Cept' 832 wont b there to join us...:( Either way i am super excited!!!

I say we go for a 1 seed run, being a winning underdog was crazy awesome though

[ehochstein]

2470 is looking forward to seeing you guys there! ARCHIMEDES! Yeah!

[JakeC]

Team 1535 is looking forward to Archimedes! We are so happy that we are with 4 other Canadian teams! Good Luck to all!

[Greg Peshek]

Here are some metrics I ran - numbers for the number happy people, with some ghetto bar graphs. The first two kind of go together, they tell the number of robots picked in each section. IE picked 1st or 5th - 16th would be the 2nd selection of the 1st seeded alliance. The second graph are the number of actual alliance captains. EDIT - My fake graphs won't line up when I post, so you'll have to live with offset graphs.


Pick 1 – 11111111111 11
Pick 2-3 - 11111111111111 14
Pick 4-6 - 1111111111111111 16
Pick 7-10 - 111111111 9
Pick 11-13 - 11111111111111 14
Pick 14-16 - 111111111111 12

AC – 1 – 111111 6
AC – 2 – 1111 4
AC – 3 – 11 2
AC – 4 – 1111 4
AC – 5 – 1 1
AC – 6 – 1111 4
AC – 7 – 111 3
AC – 8 – 11111111 8

Here's the seeding of all the robots in Archimedes throughout their respective regionals. Obviously these aren't going to add up to 87 because on average teams went to 1.60 regionals.

Seed 1 - 111111 6
Seed 2-5 - 11111111111111111 17
Seed 6-10 - 1111111111111111111111111111 28
Seed 11-15 - 11111111111111111111111 23
Seed 16-20 - 11111111111 11
Seed 20-30 - 11111111111111111111111111111 29
Seed 30-40 - 11111111111111 14
Seed >=40 - 111111111111 12


We have 24 regional/district winners overall (that includes teams that won more than once: 2056 and 2415, ). So there are 22 individual teams that actually won their regionals/districts.

I don't think Archimedes is the strongest division overall - however I'm still looking forward to having a good time with what looks to be a lot of good teams. Cya guys there.

-Greg P.

[Lowfategg]

Looking forwards to some great plays and new friends, and of course Overdrive will be coming in force!

[dodar]

Ok I can add more to all of this:

2 2 regional winners
2 rookie regional winners
24 total regional championships
11 finals appearances(not including multiple by same teams)
27 semi-finals appearnaces(not including multiple by same teams)
36 quarter-finals appearances(not including multiple by same teams)

[Josh Drake]

"I don't think Archimedes is the strongest division overall - however I'm still looking forward to having a good time with what looks to be a lot of good teams. Cya guys there.
-Greg P."

Did you see Curie?:ahh: The thing about Lunacy is it's anybody's game.

[Nick Lawrence]

I think Archimedes will be the most competitive division out there. It seems very level, so it should be quite fun.

-Nick

[dodar]

I totally have to agree, we might not have 20 powerhouse teams but that just makes it so that we dont always have like 2 or 3 in every match and it makes it easier for more productive and more level alliances and matches

[cziggy343]

yes, its going to be very interesting to see how all of this shakes out. because it does look like we have a very even division. that makes for a lot more exciting play:D

[dsmoker]

I'm all for even pairings and exciting matches. We had a very frustrating regional because, although out bot/human player consistently put up a very respectable 30-46 points per match, we were stuck either playing against powerhouse alliances or with weak alliance partners who put up very low numbers. Looking forward to seeing how our bot performs in a stronger alliance and on a more even playing field.

[RMS11]

I'm all for even pairings and exciting matches. We had a very frustrating regional because, although out bot/human player consistently put up a very respectable 30-46 points per match, we were stuck either playing against powerhouse alliances or with weak alliance partners who put up very low numbers. Looking forward to seeing how our bot performs in a stronger alliance and on a more even playing field.

That is my favorite part about championships, that all alliances are fairly strong and you are almost guaranteed to never have a "cant win" match, and none are a cake walk either.

[cziggy343]

I'm all for even pairings and exciting matches. We had a very frustrating regional because, although out bot/human player consistently put up a very respectable 30-46 points per match, we were stuck either playing against powerhouse alliances or with weak alliance partners who put up very low numbers. Looking forward to seeing how our bot performs in a stronger alliance and on a more even playing field.

welcome to my world... it is very frustrating...

[Eugene Fang]

I'm all for even pairings and exciting matches. We had a very frustrating regional because, although out bot/human player consistently put up a very respectable 30-46 points per match, we were stuck either playing against powerhouse alliances or with weak alliance partners who put up very low numbers. Looking forward to seeing how our bot performs in a stronger alliance and on a more even playing field.

I agree.
No-shows/unmoving robots killed us a couple of times, as the trailers were topped off completely.

[GBIT]

Hey so I made a thread for all of us to post pics and specs for our bots.

Heres the link:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=76643


Lets get going... :)



6 Days!! :yikes:

[Lowfategg]

Hey so I made a thread for all of us to post pics and specs for our bots.

Heres the link:http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=76643


Lets get going... :)



6 Days!! :yikes:

Sounds like a great idea. Also it would be nice if teams gave links to videos of matches they ran.

[santosh]

That is my favorite part about championships, that all alliances are fairly strong and you are almost guaranteed to never have a "cant win" match, and none are a cake walk either.

Not really too true. in 2004, we were on another alliance who built their robot in 4 hours because fedex lost their robot. They really arent too even always but they are more even than regionals for a large part.

Either way, I am excited to be in Archimedes which I haven't been in since 2004.
Not only that but I get to play against my alma mater team 1002 the CircuitRunners.

And remember, not every winning alliance this year was a #1 alliance. I would rather have 3 solid robots instead of 2 super stars and another that isnt too sharp.

Hopefully we can be the Hometwon heroes. I think we have the 2nd shortest drive if not the shortest drive.
Good luck to everybody! I look forward to playing with all of yall

[dodar]

even though it would be amazing to drive my own car to championships and be able to sleep in my bed while there, getting to be on a bus for 8 hours with team 1902 is something i just cant pass up =]

[PlatyPi Gunner]

psh, powerhouses. 3 determined, overlooked, and awesome robots can take down a powerhouse team with a little luck. we did it!
and we're all alone there from NC, our parent team didn't qualify for championships and our sister team couldn't afford the regional this year =(

[Hales_201]

Um, of course I'm excited! especially with our teams flip-flopping between going and not going haha thank god for AVL!!!! but yes, needless to say I'm excited :) Archimedes will get to Einstein for SURE!:cool:

[kenkam201]

Sup people.
Anyone seen me play Lunacy before? haha If not, you're gonna be blown away!!!!
Vectorman PLS is on his way!

[Nick Lawrence]

Archimedes == Going to Einstein.

[Aren_Hill]

Archimedes == Going to Einstein.

isnt that kind of a given? :rolleyes:

[Nick Lawrence]

Well, yeah, I just felt like posting a redundant programming joke.

[viney22]

hey nick //no programming joke needed haha jk

[Nick Lawrence]

Mike,

That was terrible :P

-Nick

Remember today with the sound effects? That was hilarious!

[dodar]

wow what happened to this thread?!? lol
it just died out, anybody got anything interesting to add to their robots for this special occasion?

[Nick Lawrence]

We had a fever.

We cured it.

We got MOAR COWBELL!!11

[Novi Hopper]

We had a fever.

We cured it.

We got MOAR COWBELL!!11

The entire division is a sleeper. We'll all stay relatively tame till the last elimination matches on Saturday, then go into Einstein full force and decimate everyone. XD

ARCHI--OHWOW2009WORLDCHAMPIONS!

[Greg Peshek]

665 is changing our ball dumping mechanism a little bit... we were probably getting 8/10 balls in during a dump before, we should be hitting 9 and 10 per dump with no jamming like we had at Florida

Let's see scouting wise, I have split scouting between me and another teammate and I have 39-1341. I have notes on all of the robots right now..the teams I'm most impressed with right now are:

61- For lightning fast dumps and reloads
201 - Great drivers, looked like they were mostly playing defense - I'm not sure if there will be any primary defensive bots on the alliances in Archi, but if there is, I would bet these guys would be high up there on that list
280 - While seeding 54th at the Michigan CMP, they were picked 5th and have great ball dumping speed and accuracy from what I've seen
488 - Looks good, accurate ball dumps, don't have a lot of info on them
624 - I think I was most impressed with 624 - these guys will make you pay if they get near your trailer, reminds me of 1114 a lot.
868 - Target acquisition, quick dumps and quick reloading make these guys a force to be reckoned with
1114 - Well built as always, they'll make you pay if they get near your trailer - but they've proven they can be beaten.

Consider this my mini-Looking Forward post for half of Archimedes. There are other good teams, but these are the ones that impressed me the most. I may post my observations for the next half when I get the results back.

[dodar]

So who MCs Archimedes usually?

[Nick Lawrence]

Don't forget 1538, they look solid.

The entire division is a sleeper. We'll all stay relatively tame till the last elimination matches on Saturday, then go into Einstein full force and decimate everyone. XD

ARCHI--OHWOW2009WORLDCHAMPIONS!

Well said.

[Madison]

488 - Looks good, accurate ball dumps, don't have a lot of info on them


What would you like to know?

Obviously, we're very happy with how our robot's performed so far this season and are looking forward to unleashing it on the world.

-We collect rapidly from the ground; it'll grab a group of six+ balls in two or three seconds, typically.
-Hopper holds 18 balls comfortably, more if we human load on top of what we've collected from the floor. We can also store balls in our conveyor if necessary.
-We can unload our entire hopper's contents in a bit less than 2 seconds and are 95%+ accurate. We don't sweat dropping one ball when we're carrying 16. :)
-We have 8 unique autonomous programs that run from any starting position. Some hit very hard.
-We have traction control on demand. I'm confident saying we had the fastest robot in both Portland and Seattle.

Our data shows we averaged 12.5 balls scored/match by our robot in Seattle over seven matches. In one match, we scored no balls because we got greedy and ran out of time after collecting 20+. We did not collect data for any of the elimination rounds, but were undefeated throughout at Seattle. Our +/- was about 16.

Here's a picture: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33668

Let me know if there's anything more you'd like to know. :)

[dodar]

How do you keep them in your hopper? do you have an unloader kinda like 1625?

[Greg Peshek]

That's great.. thanks Madison. That should make my job a lot easier. I just didn't have a ton of info because unfortunately... no videos of your robot on TBA. Which is how we get a lot of our info.. a lot of watching film and analyzing robot's performance. But I did see your guys' robot on the webcast, so that info combined with what I've seen helps a lot. :D

[Madison]

How do you keep them in your hopper? do you have an unloader kinda like 1625?

Gravity? :) I'm not intimately familiar with how 1625's machine functions, but our hopper is a cavity and the rear of the robot that is lined with a length of rip-stop nylon fabric. That fabric forms a 'U', with one end fixed to the front of the robot and the other wrapped around a spool driven by two CIMs. We spool the fabric up rapidly and that 'U' becomes a '_' or, really, something closer to a '/'

It's not dissimilar to 20's robot or to any of the machines that lift the balls up from below -- 111 and 1280, for example.

[Madison]

That's great.. thanks Madison. That should make my job a lot easier. I just didn't have a ton of info because unfortunately... no videos of your robot on TBA. Which is how we get a lot of our info.. a lot of watching film and analyzing robot's performance. But I did see your guys' robot on the webcast, so that info combined with what I've seen helps a lot. :D

Yeah, there are videos of all our matches available online, but I'm not sure if the folks that parsed them are okay with uploading them to TBA.

If anyone's interested in seeing more, you can find video of the Oregon Regional and the Microsoft Seattle Regional at bpsepaa.com. Login and password are each 'guest'.

[dangerousdave]

Here (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=39.027719,-95.625&spn=31.26361,69.785156&z=5&msid=107829457338109390621.00046710b82de16d82abd) is a map I threw together of all the teams in Archimedes.Nice Job! Very interesting to see!

[santosh]

The map doesnt have 2415. instead it has our daughterish team 3091 listed twice.

[BandChick]

For anyone interested I posted some fun signature userbars over here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=849348#post849348

Support Archimedes! Or, if you can't pick, there's even one for every division!

[cziggy343]

its getting closer guys... only four days til ill be in ATL!!:D

[TKM.368]

Looks like your division might be unfortunately happening with one less bot...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=849425#post849425

[Greg Peshek]

I think that happened between Peachtree and Palmetto because I remember reading about them planning to fix it at Palmetto. Unless that was another team and something happened to 1746's robot too, but I don't believe so.

[TKM.368]

I think that happened between Peachtree and Palmetto because I remember reading about them planning to fix it at Palmetto. Unless that was another team and something happened to 1746's robot too, but I don't believe so.

To be able to compete after something as crushing (literally!) as that, and make it to the semis at the Palmetto Regional is definitely impressive.

Best of luck to all of you on Archimedes!

[cziggy343]

I think that happened between Peachtree and Palmetto because I remember reading about them planning to fix it at Palmetto. Unless that was another team and something happened to 1746's robot too, but I don't believe so.
ill confirm that it happened between peachtree and palmetto. it was quite amazing, given the time that they were given to build, to be able to have a basically identical robot to the one that they had a peachtree. so i will once again give a big kudos to them.

[pgriswold]

Team 155 is looking forward to competing with teams in Archimedes. It looks like our division is pretty even across the board. 61 is a team to watch!
Nutty 11 can sweep up moon rocks off of the surface, can also be loaded by payload specialist, and can hold up to 15. Our deployment system is a power dumper which can dump 10-12 moon rocks in about 1-2 seconds. Our human player is very accurate, about 85-90%. We were finalists in Boston. See everyone from Archimedes on Thursday!

[DiscoDancer]

The DiscoBots are definately diggin' the teams in Archimedes!
This will be interesting, and we can't wait to see you all in Atlanta!

[CaptainMcfuddel]

Hey Archimedes teams, I am tring to get a picture of every robot from this division for scouting purposes. Using thebluealliance.net and chiefdelphi.com I have found a lot of the teams pictures. If anyone has pictures of the following team's robots please send a PM. Also, if anyone wants the pictures I already have just send a PM. Good luck everyone in atlanta!

Robot Pictures Needed

39
120
155
176
231
280
314
343
353
386
433
533
573
585(?)
692
714
857
1002
1218
1266
1289
1302
1334
1341
1390
1421
1535
1555
1561
1592
1649
1739
1746
1834
1987
2056
2070
2075
2354
2415
2470
2655
2813
2848
2874(?)
3009
3020
3062
3091

[Greg Peshek]

You can get all the Florida robot pictures at the link here: should have pictures of all you need IE: 1592, 1649, 1390, etc

http://www.michellecelio.com/FLreg09/Robots/

[RMS11]

Hey Archimedes teams, I am tring to get a picture of every robot from this division for scouting purposes. Using thebluealliance.net and chiefdelphi.com I have found a lot of the teams pictures. If anyone has pictures of the following team's robots please send a PM. Also, if anyone wants the pictures I already have just send a PM. Good luck everyone in atlanta!

Robot Pictures Needed


2415


We have two floating around on CD somewhere...

[Josh Drake]

You'll find some on the scouting thread for Acchmedes.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=76643

[EricLeifermann]

I posted a pic of 857 here on CD, I'll find the link and edit it in here.


Here is the link

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33194

[Travis Hoffman]

Hey Archimedes teams, I am tring to get a picture of every robot from this division for scouting purposes. Using thebluealliance.net and chiefdelphi.com I have found a lot of the teams pictures. If anyone has pictures of the following team's robots please send a PM. Also, if anyone wants the pictures I already have just send a PM. Good luck everyone in atlanta!

Robot Pictures Needed

39
120
155
176
231
280
314
343
353
386
433
533
573
585(?)
692
714
857
1002
1218
1266
1289
1302
1334
1341
1390
1421
1535
1555
1561
1592
1649
1739
1746
1834
1987
2056
2070
2075
2354
2415
2470
2655
2813
2848
2874(?)
3009
3020
3062
3091

A generally useful tool: use the frclinks.com (http://frclinks.com) service like so:

frclinks.com/t/[team number] - if the team has a website, the link will appear in the resulting page.

You can find pics of 1218 (http://www.team1708.com/images/028.JPG) and 3062 (http://www.team1708.com/images/Pittsburgh_Reg._2009_107.JPG) at the Pittsburgh Regional at www.team1708.com (http://www.team1708.com/).

I'm surprised no pics of 2056 have popped up online anywhere.

[Joe Ross]

Similar to what I did last year (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=735425&postcount=165), I ran through 200 simulated qualification match schedules (all 102 matches, using the FIRST match generator). I used each team's average opr (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=76618) for their contribution to a match. I calculated the standings for each of the 200 simulated qualification schedules, and then looked at some statistics from the aggregate results.

When I went back and looked at last year's data, a team finished within 1 standard deviation of their average seed 60% of the time, and within 2 standard deviations 95% of the time. Only 3 teams seeded higher/lower then their min/max seed.

Team Avg Seed Median Mode StDev Min Max #1 seed Top 8
2056 5.3 3 1 6.5 1 46 56 163
2753 9.6 7 1 9.3 1 59 22 122
1218 9.9 6.5 1 9.7 1 78 25 117
1114 9.7 7 1 9.4 1 64 24 118
624 13.0 9 6 11.5 1 65 12 92
231 16.0 12 4 13.4 1 62 6 75
155 16.8 13.5 7 13.5 1 63 6 75
2587 18.8 15 15 14.1 1 66 6 43
343 16.9 14 9 13.1 1 78 6 63
118 19.2 15.5 11 14.9 1 79 4 54
222 21.0 17 4 15.4 1 69 2 43
201 18.3 15 8 14.0 1 66 4 65
125 18.3 13 8 14.8 1 75 5 69
1421 23.0 20 12 15.2 1 78 1 34
558 26.8 23 10 17.4 1 73 1 24
280 26.3 23 16 17.1 1 81 1 26
868 25.5 23 27 16.7 1 80 3 31
61 24.2 20 29 16.2 1 69 3 36
1649 27.5 24.5 10 17.3 2 79 0 21
1503 29.0 25 22 17.0 1 76 1 17
585 28.2 27 47 16.0 1 82 1 19
1712 28.8 26 18 18.6 2 80 0 31
503 31.4 30 36 18.4 1 78 2 22
3062 31.2 29.5 32 18.9 1 80 2 19
1561 33.9 32 44 18.5 2 75 0 15
604 34.6 31 48 20.8 1 84 1 17
488 32.8 30 31 19.5 1 80 1 18
692 34.5 32 19 19.2 1 78 1 12
180 35.3 33 34 19.8 2 80 0 16
2415 38.1 36.5 49 17.7 2 82 0 5
1341 40.1 40 29 18.8 2 87 0 9
2915 40.6 40.5 34 18.3 3 85 0 5
1807 40.1 41 42 19.7 2 79 0 7
2826 40.8 40 51 18.0 2 80 0 2
107 41.3 38.5 22 19.9 2 84 0 8
1538 41.8 43 48 17.6 2 84 0 3
533 42.0 42 48 19.4 4 85 0 5
48 41.7 40.5 18 18.9 2 84 0 3
548 42.1 43.5 63 19.9 1 87 1 10
1986 44.3 43.5 45 18.6 3 82 0 1
1746 44.7 41 35 20.0 1 84 1 2
665 42.6 42 24 20.3 3 84 0 7
2075 45.0 44 36 20.4 2 83 0 6
176 46.9 50 51 19.6 3 87 0 3
1266 45.8 47 67 20.2 7 85 0 3
3009 46.6 47 47 20.7 3 85 0 7
573 46.6 46.5 44 19.2 6 85 0 5
931 46.5 48 48 20.0 1 84 1 6
93 46.8 47 68 19.1 4 85 0 3
714 49.7 50 39 18.8 8 86 0 1
2220 49.8 50.5 60 19.1 3 87 0 2
1334 49.5 51 39 20.2 7 85 0 2
1002 51.6 53.5 70 19.0 8 87 0 2
1302 48.3 50 63 18.4 4 86 0 3
2543 52.0 53 52 19.5 6 86 0 2
2169 48.8 49.5 54 18.6 1 86 1 1
39 50.1 50.5 36 20.3 4 87 0 4
1535 50.6 52 71 18.9 9 85 0 0
1014 48.1 51 35 20.6 3 85 0 6
2354 47.6 50 39 20.4 3 87 0 3
2848 51.1 52 39 20.5 3 87 0 3
3091 51.4 53 66 19.8 3 87 0 3
1390 55.2 58.5 62 18.6 2 87 0 3
2813 55.2 56.5 36 18.7 5 87 0 1
2874 54.7 57 57 19.6 6 86 0 2
2470 57.5 62 69 20.1 8 87 0 1
2655 57.4 59 71 18.2 8 86 0 1
857 60.5 63 72 16.8 9 86 0 0
314 61.8 64.5 81 17.8 18 87 0 0
1592 58.4 61 72 20.0 3 87 0 3
1739 63.4 69 81 17.8 10 87 0 0
1555 64.4 67.5 81 15.7 16 87 0 0
433 65.6 70 70 15.9 13 87 0 0
386 65.5 69 84 16.3 11 87 0 0
2340 66.3 70.5 80 16.0 20 87 0 0
1743 64.2 68.5 72 16.5 17 87 0 0
3020 67.9 72 72 15.4 18 87 0 0
1987 68.3 73 85 15.5 11 87 0 0
1834 68.7 72.5 86 15.3 14 87 0 0
120 69.2 72 72 14.5 11 87 0 0
811 71.1 76 86 15.2 20 87 0 0
353 73.5 77 86 13.7 18 87 0 0
2070 74.3 77 87 12.6 36 87 0 0
2486 73.5 78 87 13.7 34 87 0 0
2779 76.1 81 87 12.2 23 87 0 0
1289 77.2 79.5 87 10.8 21 87 0 0
492 79.5 83 87 8.5 43 87 0 0

[Greg Peshek]

Wow good stuff, while we all know you can't rely on numbers and statistics alone, it's a great representation of the field and seems to match up with my scouting thus far.

Quick question, how are the teams ordered on your list? Neither the mean, median, mode or any of the categories line up in a perfect order. Is there just a stat that isn't on there that's ordering them, or am I missing something? Thanks for posting this again.

[AcesPease]

Similar to what I did last year (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=735425&postcount=165), I ran through 200 simulated qualification match schedules (all 102 matches, using the FIRST match generator). I used each team's average opr (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=76618) for their contribution to a match. I calculated the standings for each of the 200 simulated qualification schedules, and then looked at some statistics from the aggregate results.

When I went back and looked at last year's data, a team finished within 1 standard deviation of their average seed 60% of the time, and within 2 standard deviations 95% of the time. Only 3 teams seeded higher/lower then their min/max seed.

Team Avg Seed Median Mode StDev Min Max #1 seed Top 8
2056 5.3 3 1 6.5 1 46 56 163
2753 9.6 7 1 9.3 1 59 22 122
1218 9.9 6.5 1 9.7 1 78 25 117
1114 9.7 7 1 9.4 1 64 24 118
624 13.0 9 6 11.5 1 65 12 92
231 16.0 12 4 13.4 1 62 6 75
155 16.8 13.5 7 13.5 1 63 6 75
2587 18.8 15 15 14.1 1 66 6 43
343 16.9 14 9 13.1 1 78 6 63
118 19.2 15.5 11 14.9 1 79 4 54
222 21.0 17 4 15.4 1 69 2 43
201 18.3 15 8 14.0 1 66 4 65
125 18.3 13 8 14.8 1 75 5 69
1421 23.0 20 12 15.2 1 78 1 34
558 26.8 23 10 17.4 1 73 1 24
280 26.3 23 16 17.1 1 81 1 26
868 25.5 23 27 16.7 1 80 3 31
61 24.2 20 29 16.2 1 69 3 36
1649 27.5 24.5 10 17.3 2 79 0 21
1503 29.0 25 22 17.0 1 76 1 17
585 28.2 27 47 16.0 1 82 1 19
1712 28.8 26 18 18.6 2 80 0 31
503 31.4 30 36 18.4 1 78 2 22
3062 31.2 29.5 32 18.9 1 80 2 19
1561 33.9 32 44 18.5 2 75 0 15
604 34.6 31 48 20.8 1 84 1 17
488 32.8 30 31 19.5 1 80 1 18
692 34.5 32 19 19.2 1 78 1 12
180 35.3 33 34 19.8 2 80 0 16
2415 38.1 36.5 49 17.7 2 82 0 5
1341 40.1 40 29 18.8 2 87 0 9
2915 40.6 40.5 34 18.3 3 85 0 5
1807 40.1 41 42 19.7 2 79 0 7
2826 40.8 40 51 18.0 2 80 0 2
107 41.3 38.5 22 19.9 2 84 0 8
1538 41.8 43 48 17.6 2 84 0 3
533 42.0 42 48 19.4 4 85 0 5
48 41.7 40.5 18 18.9 2 84 0 3
548 42.1 43.5 63 19.9 1 87 1 10
1986 44.3 43.5 45 18.6 3 82 0 1
1746 44.7 41 35 20.0 1 84 1 2
665 42.6 42 24 20.3 3 84 0 7
2075 45.0 44 36 20.4 2 83 0 6
176 46.9 50 51 19.6 3 87 0 3
1266 45.8 47 67 20.2 7 85 0 3
3009 46.6 47 47 20.7 3 85 0 7
573 46.6 46.5 44 19.2 6 85 0 5
931 46.5 48 48 20.0 1 84 1 6
93 46.8 47 68 19.1 4 85 0 3
714 49.7 50 39 18.8 8 86 0 1
2220 49.8 50.5 60 19.1 3 87 0 2
1334 49.5 51 39 20.2 7 85 0 2
1002 51.6 53.5 70 19.0 8 87 0 2
1302 48.3 50 63 18.4 4 86 0 3
2543 52.0 53 52 19.5 6 86 0 2
2169 48.8 49.5 54 18.6 1 86 1 1
39 50.1 50.5 36 20.3 4 87 0 4
1535 50.6 52 71 18.9 9 85 0 0
1014 48.1 51 35 20.6 3 85 0 6
2354 47.6 50 39 20.4 3 87 0 3
2848 51.1 52 39 20.5 3 87 0 3
3091 51.4 53 66 19.8 3 87 0 3
1390 55.2 58.5 62 18.6 2 87 0 3
2813 55.2 56.5 36 18.7 5 87 0 1
2874 54.7 57 57 19.6 6 86 0 2
2470 57.5 62 69 20.1 8 87 0 1
2655 57.4 59 71 18.2 8 86 0 1
857 60.5 63 72 16.8 9 86 0 0
314 61.8 64.5 81 17.8 18 87 0 0
1592 58.4 61 72 20.0 3 87 0 3
1739 63.4 69 81 17.8 10 87 0 0
1555 64.4 67.5 81 15.7 16 87 0 0
433 65.6 70 70 15.9 13 87 0 0
386 65.5 69 84 16.3 11 87 0 0
2340 66.3 70.5 80 16.0 20 87 0 0
1743 64.2 68.5 72 16.5 17 87 0 0
3020 67.9 72 72 15.4 18 87 0 0
1987 68.3 73 85 15.5 11 87 0 0
1834 68.7 72.5 86 15.3 14 87 0 0
120 69.2 72 72 14.5 11 87 0 0
811 71.1 76 86 15.2 20 87 0 0
353 73.5 77 86 13.7 18 87 0 0
2070 74.3 77 87 12.6 36 87 0 0
2486 73.5 78 87 13.7 34 87 0 0
2779 76.1 81 87 12.2 23 87 0 0
1289 77.2 79.5 87 10.8 21 87 0 0
492 79.5 83 87 8.5 43 87 0 0

Interesting data. Looking at the deviations and the seeding ranges, once you get past the first 8 bots its a pretty open field. It will be fun to try to beat the odds :)

[Joe Ross]

Wow good stuff, while we all know you can't rely on numbers and statistics alone, it's a great representation of the field and seems to match up with my scouting thus far.

Quick question, how are the teams ordered on your list? Neither the mean, median, mode or any of the categories line up in a perfect order. Is there just a stat that isn't on there that's ordering them, or am I missing something? Thanks for posting this again.

It's ordered by the average OPR, from Ed Law's spreadsheet (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=76618). Given enough iterations, I'd expect the average seed to be be the same order as OPR, but it looks like 200 wasn't enough. It takes about 24 hours to do 200 match schedules, so that's my practical limit.

[jspatz1]

For anyone shopping for Archimedes robot pictures, we have a collection going at this Picasa Album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mrhartwig/2009Archimedes?feat=directlink

[PlatyPi Gunner]

That's last year's stuff right?

[rfolea]

Hey Joe,

Are you coming to ATL? Didn't see 330 on the list ...

- Rick Folea

[rfolea]

Looks like your division might be unfortunately happening with one less bot...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=849425#post849425

We'll be there ... That accident happened between two of our regionals.

"otto" is rarin' to go ... (band-aides an all ..)

[Joe Ross]

I used each team's average OPR and the actual match schedule to predict each match and calculate the standings.

Match Red 1 Red 2 Red 3 Blue 1 Blue 2 Blue 3 R Score B Score
1 176 1986 3091 558 624 2848 60 85
2 492 1002 2169 180 2874 1266 41 62
3 93 201 2486 353 1390 1341 58 49
4 1739 1743 692 2587 222 1649 50 94
5 1712 39 573 2340 2655 1592 67 42
6 2813 2220 714 811 2470 503 54 51
7 1289 2075 1746 314 2415 488 47 63
8 1538 386 1834 1302 665 2779 45 46
9 48 2056 433 1421 1114 548 81 92
10 2753 2354 120 3062 3009 604 70 73
11 107 118 2070 1561 1218 1334 63 86
12 1503 533 1014 280 155 868 69 92
13 585 1535 931 343 1987 857 67 58
14 3020 125 2543 2826 1555 61 63 65
15 231 2915 1538 1807 558 201 82 85
16 93 2655 1739 1986 548 2470 49 58
17 3009 314 48 222 386 2486 56 50
18 1289 3091 2220 1218 665 1649 42 90
19 573 1834 3062 433 1743 353 57 32
20 488 714 931 2874 2587 120 64 60
21 125 1390 1302 533 1561 1266 68 69
22 2543 624 1592 2056 1503 1535 70 94
23 503 1746 604 343 3020 280 74 73
24 39 1987 492 1555 1114 176 33 73
25 180 2340 2753 1334 857 2075 78 54
26 2354 1807 61 1421 107 2779 71 60
27 1014 1712 118 2915 2848 2813 80 57
28 1002 155 2826 692 811 2070 76 40
29 2415 1341 231 868 2169 585 84 76
30 3062 2874 1218 125 1739 624 84 82
31 1538 48 176 573 604 2543 66 65
32 1555 3009 1334 1986 2587 433 52 66
33 533 120 314 1807 3091 503 46 68
34 343 118 1592 61 488 665 80 75
35 93 1421 692 857 1561 2220 76 59
36 2753 2848 1503 2070 1302 353 87 34
37 222 2779 2655 1114 1341 1014 54 82
38 1649 2813 2340 1002 107 1746 56 63
39 3020 548 1535 1266 1289 231 53 62
40 201 714 585 492 1712 2056 79 78
41 868 2354 558 386 39 180 78 56
42 2075 155 931 2486 2169 2915 75 48
43 2826 1390 2470 1987 280 1743 56 52
44 1834 2415 1421 811 343 120 65 51
45 2848 1649 604 2779 533 2874 72 44
46 433 118 125 314 1002 1535 77 52
47 2813 492 2655 3091 3009 61 34 67
48 1218 176 692 868 1712 2753 87 98
49 1334 1266 931 1746 3062 1592 60 62
50 1390 2587 1503 2220 548 558 78 70
51 39 811 2543 665 2915 1743 46 56
52 2169 2354 201 1986 3020 1014 70 51
53 2470 2340 624 1538 2415 2070 65 54
54 2486 280 1302 585 1555 1289 54 46
55 488 2056 1341 386 1807 155 96 69
56 93 180 231 222 1987 1834 81 53
57 2826 107 353 857 714 48 54 55
58 573 1114 1561 2075 503 1739 86 61
59 120 665 2848 201 1746 868 49 82
60 2587 811 2655 1266 118 1538 58 77
61 533 1218 3020 2340 585 2915 74 63
62 1555 604 1421 1014 1002 488 70 63
63 1649 61 1712 1834 1535 2470 85 45
64 1987 1807 353 1592 1986 2813 42 51
65 857 231 1114 155 3091 125 89 84
66 492 1743 48 343 2075 2354 37 73
67 1302 3062 2056 176 107 503 93 71
68 222 2169 1561 558 433 2826 78 65
69 2753 1289 714 39 624 93 65 76
70 692 1341 548 1334 2874 314 70 49
71 1390 2779 2415 931 3009 573 47 60
72 280 2070 1739 2543 386 2220 49 50
73 2486 180 343 1503 1218 1114 64 108
74 1538 1535 353 492 155 1421 50 68
75 558 1002 665 3020 48 2655 70 50
76 1987 1561 61 868 3062 2915 67 79
77 1341 1302 39 2587 604 2813 62 76
78 857 1555 503 2354 1649 2415 54 72
79 176 386 1743 93 120 118 45 63
80 180 280 1986 2056 931 692 75 92
81 1334 2486 488 573 2848 2470 50 54
82 125 585 2220 1746 1014 2753 79 81
83 624 2075 222 1390 1712 1807 90 68
84 1266 2340 314 2543 1834 714 47 48
85 1592 3091 548 2779 2070 2169 54 32
86 433 2874 811 1503 231 107 36 87
87 201 533 1289 3009 1739 2826 59 56
88 3062 2415 118 48 155 180 84 81
89 3020 1538 1561 120 39 2486 62 35
90 665 1114 1986 604 585 1390 81 71
91 1421 1712 558 1302 2543 1746 89 59
92 2070 125 503 1834 931 492 66 33
93 353 1555 2470 1218 2056 314 37 102
94 222 1002 573 714 2354 533 71 60
95 1739 343 1266 3091 1341 433 67 54
96 3009 548 107 1987 488 624 65 73
97 2169 1807 1743 1535 2848 2220 54 56
98 2779 1334 868 2826 93 2813 54 59
99 386 61 2587 2340 1014 231 74 67
100 1592 280 2753 811 201 1649 84 68
101 2915 2874 857 176 1289 2655 53 42
102 1503 2075 3062 692 125 1538 76 80

Rank Team Wins Losses Ties Matches QP RS MP
1 1114 7 0 0 7 14 64 108
2 3062 6 1 0 7 12 65.29 93
3 1218 6 1 0 7 12 62.57 108
4 201 6 1 0 7 12 61.86 85
5 118 6 1 0 7 12 61.57 84
6 1421 6 1 0 7 12 60.43 92
7 93 6 1 0 7 12 53.43 81
8 573 6 1 0 7 12 51 86
9 2056 5 2 0 7 10 68.71 102
10 624 5 2 0 7 10 66.29 90
11 868 5 2 0 7 10 65.43 98
12 2753 5 2 0 7 10 65.29 98
13 231 5 2 0 7 10 64.43 89
14 604 5 2 0 7 10 64 76
15 558 5 2 0 7 10 63.14 89
16 1712 5 2 0 7 10 62.29 98
17 1746 5 2 0 7 10 60.43 82
18 1503 5 2 0 7 10 59.86 108
19 2587 5 2 0 7 10 59.86 94
20 1561 5 2 0 7 10 59.71 86
21 714 5 2 0 7 10 59.29 79
22 61 5 2 0 7 10 58.71 85
23 2415 5 2 0 7 10 58.57 84
24 1592 5 2 0 7 10 55.57 84
25 2354 5 2 0 7 10 55.43 78
26 931 5 2 0 7 10 54.43 92
27 1266 5 2 0 7 10 54.43 77
28 665 5 2 0 7 10 54 90
29 1649 5 2 0 7 10 51.29 94
30 2848 5 2 0 7 10 49.71 87
31 155 4 3 0 7 8 63 92
32 692 4 3 0 7 8 62.29 92
33 488 4 3 0 7 8 61.29 96
34 1341 4 3 0 7 8 59 96
35 222 4 3 0 7 8 57.14 94
36 1986 4 3 0 7 8 57.14 81
37 548 4 3 0 7 8 57 92
38 2826 4 3 0 7 8 54.86 76
39 3009 4 3 0 7 8 53.43 73
40 1002 4 3 0 7 8 51.71 76
41 2813 4 3 0 7 8 50.86 76
42 2470 4 3 0 7 8 48.29 65
43 125 3 4 0 7 6 65 84
44 1014 3 4 0 7 6 62.86 82
45 280 3 4 0 7 6 61.71 92
46 180 3 4 0 7 6 60.57 81
47 1807 3 4 0 7 6 60.14 85
48 48 3 4 0 7 6 59.71 81
49 343 3 4 0 7 6 58.86 80
50 533 3 4 0 7 6 58 74
51 857 3 4 0 7 6 57.86 89
52 2915 3 4 0 7 6 57.86 82
53 2220 3 4 0 7 6 57.71 79
54 1538 3 4 0 7 6 57.14 82
55 2075 3 4 0 7 6 55.86 90
56 503 3 4 0 7 6 55.57 74
57 1302 3 4 0 7 6 55 93
58 1535 3 4 0 7 6 54.57 94
59 2874 3 4 0 7 6 50.57 84
60 3091 3 4 0 7 6 50.29 84
61 1555 3 4 0 7 6 49.71 73
62 314 3 4 0 7 6 46.86 102
63 1834 3 4 0 7 6 43.71 65
64 585 2 5 0 7 4 67.29 79
65 1390 2 5 0 7 4 60.71 78
66 107 2 5 0 7 4 57.86 87
67 176 2 5 0 7 4 57.57 87
68 2543 2 5 0 7 4 57 70
69 3020 2 5 0 7 4 55.43 74
70 2340 2 5 0 7 4 54.71 78
71 386 2 5 0 7 4 54.43 74
72 433 2 5 0 7 4 53.14 81
73 2169 2 5 0 7 4 52.43 78
74 1289 2 5 0 7 4 50.14 65
75 2486 2 5 0 7 4 48.86 64
76 39 2 5 0 7 4 48.43 76
77 1739 1 6 0 7 2 57.29 82
78 1334 1 6 0 7 2 54.57 86
79 1987 1 6 0 7 2 52.86 73
80 120 1 6 0 7 2 50.86 70
81 2779 1 6 0 7 2 48 60
82 1743 1 6 0 7 2 45.14 56
83 492 1 6 0 7 2 43.71 78
84 2070 1 6 0 7 2 43.57 66
85 811 0 7 0 7 0 50 68
86 2655 0 7 0 7 0 47 58
87 353 0 7 0 7 0 42.57 54


If you don't like the way your team did in the simulation, don't worry, OPR has proven to be only slightly better then flipping a coin this year.

[ehochstein]

For anyone shopping for Archimedes robot pictures, we have a collection going at this Picasa Album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mrhartwig/2009Archimedes?feat=directlink

That is an old picture of our robot, I don't have any new ones on hand but it's pretty upgraded :)

[astephen68]

Alliance selection is going on.

[tim_reiher]

Wow... a rookie (though not much of a surprise of one in 2753, to be honest) usurping 1114 and heading to einstein...

Remarkable!

[cziggy343]

team 343 would love to thank team 488 and team 118 for our absolutely awesome run in our division! it was truely a lot of fun to play with you guys. i just wish we could have gotten a little bit farther...

and congrads to teams 222, 2753, and 1218! it was a great battle, and ya'll did a great job!

[M.Wong]

Team 503 here sending out thanks to Team 1114 and 2056. It's been an honor to play side by side with some of the best teams in the world.

For myself personally, it was an amazing, to play with a team that I originally saw last year at the Midwest Regional. When I saw 1114 there, I knew that they would win Worlds.

I only hope, that we will be able to play along side 1114 and 2056 at IRI for it has been an honor and adventure playing with you.

[jgannon]

Congratulations to our good friends at 222 and 1218, as well as the spectacular rookie team 2753, on an amazing performance.

[monkeymel1003]

Congratulations teams 222, 1218, and 2753!!! I was really glad to see some teams that I knew/allianced with/went against over the years do so well! Great job guys!!!

[camtunkpa]

Thanks all for the kind words! Especially thanks to out alliance partners 1218 and 2753. You guys were awesome! A special thanks to many all the other who helped us get there by encouraging us and helping us strategize. I won't begin to name numbers because I don't want to leave anyone out. The support from these people and teams meant so much to us and really showed what first is all about!

[Josh Drake]

Great weekend! I wish we could do this stuff year round, but the cost would be too great.
Congradulations to the division winners. We had a great time playing with you guys. We knew we were in for some good competition when you took out the #1 seed.
Also thanks again to 488 and 118 for picking us, and being great partners. Our alliance scouted out the competition, and came up with some good game plans. 3 amazing machines.
I had a blast getting as far as we did, and was glad we turned some heads as the "dark horse". Our modification to the drive train worked well enough to exceed expectations.
To those GA teams that talked about hosting an off-season event, we might be game. There's also IRI, but I'm not sure about the money situation.
Thanks:)

[Brandon Holley]

I won't begin to name numbers because I don't want to leave anyone out. The support from these people and teams meant so much to us and really showed what first is all about!

C'mon....you know you want to ;)


Regardless...congrats again to 222 on an excellent season. I used to harass Henry constantly..."Always a Bridesmaid, never a Bride" not anymore for 222.

2753 and 1218 were also 2 amazing robots...the fact that you 3 ended up on an alliance together was almost unfair....almost ;)

[Madison]

C'mon....you know you want to ;)


Regardless...congrats again to 222 on an excellent season. I used to harass Henry constantly..."Always a Bridesmaid, never a Bride" not anymore for 222.

2753 and 1218 were also 2 amazing robots...the fact that you 3 ended up on an alliance together was almost unfair....almost ;)

For folks that said they didn't have a list of teams to choose from, they sure ended up with a nice bunch of partners.

Congratulations, y'all. It's about time folks were forced to stand up and notice how good you've been all along.

[camtunkpa]

For folks that said they didn't have a list of teams to choose from, they sure ended up with a nice bunch of partners.

Congratulations, y'all. It's about time folks were forced to stand up and notice how good you've been all along.

Thanks Madison. We honestly didn't have a list. We don't have a scouting crew per say. Everyone on our team is a multi tasker and there's no dedicated scouts. We had the same conundrum in Pittsburgh as well, however we learned to trust 1218's scouting. 1218 not only has a great robot but some great scouts to back it up.

[camtunkpa]

C'mon....you know you want to ;)


Regardless...congrats again to 222 on an excellent season. I used to harass Henry constantly..."Always a Bridesmaid, never a Bride" not anymore for 222.

2753 and 1218 were also 2 amazing robots...the fact that you 3 ended up on an alliance together was almost unfair....almost ;)

Thanks Brandon!

Alright I've thought about it and we had friends from 103, 488, 816, 1712, 1629, 1743, 1923 and last but certainly not least a couple guys from 125 ;) helping and supporting us through our entire championship run. I apologize if I missed anyone, but Saturday is still a blur of excitement.

[Akash Rastogi]

Congratulations to 222 our alliance captain from Philly, 1218, a team I've respected for a long time now, and 2753, the veteran I knew they would be. Hope to see much more of 2753's excellence in the future both on the field and off the field at our shop.

[Jon Jack]

It's taken me a while to let everything soak in. Here are my thanks and congrats for our division:

1503
Thank you for having the confidence in us to pick us 2nd overall. It was a pleasure working with you guys and making a strong run in the eliminations. You're payload specialist was terrific and made it easy for us to switch our auto modes on the fly and still be effective. I can't wait to get to play with you guys again. Maybe we'll have to take a trip up to GTR sometime in the next few years :cool: .

488, 118 and 343
Kudos for adapting so well against us. In all three semi-final matches you guys kept us on our feet. Not being able to see what 488 had in their hopper made it extremely tough to play defense against them.

2056
Watching you guys was an awesome site. You guys truly do have one of the best robots in FIRST this year. Getting a chance to play with and against you on Thursday was very fun. I can't wait to get another chance to play with you guys (maybe at IRI?)

1114
You guys continue to inspire me and my team. Even though LF has said that our robot was a 254 inspired design, we were originally inspired by the simplicity and effectiveness of your 2008 robot. When we started this season, we kept saying to each other that we wanted to create a bot that could play this game as efficiently as your 2008 robot. This year you guys showed showed us never to give up on a robot. You guys have adapted incredibly well from your rough start in Chicago to your strong finish in Atlanta. You're a poster child for the phrase 'The Robot Is Never Done.'. I too look forward to play with you guys in the near future.

222, 1218 and 2753
WOW! The fact that this alliance could be formed was ridiculous. These three teams had to be three of the most consistent scorers in our division. While they couldn't put up the big numbers like some, they were consistent.

[jspatz1]

Just want to let you guys from 1538 know that you were definitely my favorite bot in Archimedes. Incredibly efficient in your scoring and chasing down of trailers. The double row of balls streaming out of your shooter was a thing of beauty. Your record did not even remotely reflect how good your bot was. How you were able to intake so many balls with a narrow format chassis I will never know. In my opinion, Archimedes did not send its best bots to Einstein, partly because you were not there. I think 1114 made a critical mistake by not picking you first. 1114 and 1538 together would have been an unstoppable combination.

[Jon Jack]

Jeff,

Thanks for the kind words. It took a ton of practice to be able to pick up balls as well as we did. Between pinning practice, 2 minute drills and other maintenance work we spent a lot of time getting our drivers used to picking up balls. We pretty much ran our practice robot to the point where we couldn't run it anymore.

Really, it's tough to judge a team in 7-9 matches. Especially in this game. If I were in 1114's position I don't know if I would have picked us. We had a couple of matches where we didn't play our best and I'm sure that left a big question mark in terms of our consistency.

Even if 1114 picked us, who knows if we could have beat 222, 1218 and 2753. One thing this game has taught me is that NOTHING is guaranteed. No matter how good your alliance looks on paper. I've played in matches this year where it looked like we should have dominated, but barely squeaked out a win or even lost the match.

[Lowfategg]

Hey guys I am wondering,

According to the FIRST rankings we went to 3 matches in semifinals, yet... I know we played 4 matches.

The first one was a tie (82-82) and the second one was a loss according to the score showed on the screen, we then won the next 2. I was wondering if FIRST reports ties in official rankings or if by some chance they messed up the score on the first one when the real score was 82-112 like bluealliance is reporting for the first.

Its just confusing me, so I am wondering if that is normal.

[Joe Ross]

Hey guys I am wondering,

According to the FIRST rankings we went to 3 matches in semifinals, yet... I know we played 4 matches.

The first one was a tie (82-82) and the second one was a loss according to the score showed on the screen, we then won the next 2. I was wondering if FIRST reports ties in official rankings or if by some chance they messed up the score on the first one when the real score was 82-112 like bluealliance is reporting for the first.

Its just confusing me, so I am wondering if that is normal.

The FIRST scoring system treats ties like they never happened.