Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

I just can't get over the fact that this robot... one which played a large role in my becoming an engineer... is just chilling in the Jenkins' living room.

So cool.

-John

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As I recall the later bumper rules (say, the 03-05 bumper rules), if you wanted to use a bumper, it had to make weight with the rest of the robot and had to not be made of hard material, or something like that. I don't remember if they got an "outside the box" allowance or not. And I think that skirt sure looks like sheet metal, where the team nametags aren't...

Though I do seem to remember hearing about somebody building bumpers that acted as weight transfer devices: you drive into them, they lift you up slightly.

2006 was also the first year that bumpers didn't have to make the robot weight. A lot of people figured out that you wanted more weight for a variety of reasons relating to CG and immobility, and so a lot of robots carried bumpers even though they were optional.


Oh, and Jesse: Seconded on the cones. Traffic cones, athletic cones--just get some cones in there. (Hide a kitbot in a road barrel--if both alliances catch it as it drives around at the end of the game, coopertition points.)

Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

By far the 2003 autonomous was the most thrilling to watch, robots interacting in one place during auto was so thrilling. It seems all the auto periods recently are just too safe and not as spectacular as they were back in stack attack. It adds a very big unknown into the game which I hope returns at some point.

Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

I like where you're going with this! The possibilities seem to be endless :D

Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

From 2000
M2. Robots must sit, unconstrained, inside a 36”x30" rectangular footprint and be no more than 60" high at the start of a match. The weight of the robot, including battery, bumper, and control system, may not exceed 130.0 pounds.

Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

Wasn't that the rule that resulted in robots that got stuck in build rooms when teams forgot how narrow the doorway was?

Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

1996 was 36" x 36" x 36"
They fixed this in 1997.

-John

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They fixed it in 1998. I remember having this problem in 1997 as the dimensions were 36x36 that year. :p

Re: Modern Upgrrade
 

I see... My knowledge of games 2008 and prior (especially pre 2006) is patchy... as is my understanding of doorway dimensions (brain fart). Oh well. You learn something every day.

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Larry,
Many venues (of which there were only a couple of regionals at that time) had the maintenance crew take out the center post on some of the doorways so robots could be moved. Our Ladder Logic (1998) robot looks to be close to 36x36 too. http://www.wildstang.org/gallery2/v/...g_jpg.jpg.html
I might be able to check dimensions tonight. The ball was pretty big though. I don't have any rules pre-2001.

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(realizing this thread is from 2012): Well, for 2015, we got the highest voted result of Stack Attack in the form of Recycle Rush.

Not remembering 2003's elim point system, we got 3-4 out of 5 of those points (1. stacking, 2. bumpers optional, 4. no horizontal dimension limits on-field)

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Unfortunately, we did get the point system, in all its ugliness.

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hmmmmn......

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It's not as ugly as 2003. If you were losing, you were incentivized to make sure that you scored as little as possible. The scores of the finals on Einstein were 12-130 and 52-10. The world championship alliance got blown out in the last match on Einstein (but not as badly as they blew out the other alliance in the first match).

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To quote Ken Patton in 2003 after our Einstein win...
"Sorry we lost that last match for you guys. Oh! That is what we were supposed to do."