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Re: BattleCry@WPI 15 - Reg opening soon!

We will be discussing the eighth-finals breakdown at our next BC Planning Meeting. This will include who plays who, if anyone gets a bye, and how many matches determine the eighth finals.

Last year, we played 15v18 and 16v17 to determine the "15th" and "16th" seeds, and proceeded into eighth finals that way. This year, there has been discussion to give the top teams byes past the eighth finals.

Thanks to Mike E who has already crunched some numbers for us, it looks like ~80% of the time, the winner of the first set of 3 matches determines the winner of the set, so it is likely the eighth finals will remain a single match. We do the math/consider that data every year to determine whether 1-2 matches will decide the eighth finals.

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Originally Posted by Niezrecki (Post 1368778)

Hopefully my team has a quick trigger finger. :)

You guys better have a quick trigger finger if I'm coming all the way up from DC for this :P

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Whether or not 422 ends up there thie year, I want to show up just to take notes and watch. Heard you guys have a lot of fun!

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As of 12:02 716 got registered hopefully it was QUICK enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by who716 (Post 1368849)

As of 12:02 716 got registered hopefully it was QUICK enough!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rumor has it(one I just made up but is completely plausible) that anyone registered after 12:01 did not make it.

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And the list of challengers is up! Looks like a good group

Code:

Team Number        Team        City        State

61        BVT robotics        Upton        MA

78        AIR Strike        Newport County        RI

88        TJ2        Bridgewater        MA

95        The Grasshoppers        Upper Valley        NH

121        Rhode Warriors        Newport County        RI

125        125        Boston        MA

126        Gael Force        Clinton        MA

131        CHAOS        Manchester        NH

157        Marcus Fletcher        Worceter        MA

166        Chop Shop        Merrimack        NH

172        Northern Force        Falmouth & Gorham        ME

176        Aces High        Windsor Locks        CT

181        Birds of Prey        Hartford        CT

190        Gompei & the HERD        Worcester        MA

195        cyberKnights        Southington        CT

228        GUS Robotics        Meriden        CT

230        Gaelhawks        Shelton        CT

238        Cruisin' Crusaders        Manchester        NH

319        Big Bad Bob        Alton        NH

467        Shrewsbury Colonials        Shrewsbury        MA

501        Power Knights        Manchester        NH

716        Who’sCTEKS        Falls Village        CT

839        Rosie Robotics        Agawam        MA

999        MechaRams        Cheshire        CT

1058        PVC Pirates        Londonderry        NH

1073        TheForce Team        Hollis        NH

1100        T-Hawks        Northboro        MA

1124        UberBots        Avon        CT

1153        Robo-rebels        Walpole        MA

1350        Rambots        Providence        RI

1468        Hicksville J-Birds        Hicksville        NY

1474        MasterLink Militia        Tewksbury        MA

1687        Highlander Robotics        Worcester        MA

1735        Green Reapers        Worcester        MA

1761        STEAMpunk Tigers        Lynn        MA

2084        Robots by the C        Manchester        MA

2168        Aluminum Falcons        Groton        CT

2262        RoboPanthers        Holliston        MA

2342        Team Phoenix (Greater Nashua FIRST Robotics Club)        Nashua        NH

2423        The KwarQs        Watertown        MA

2648        Infinite Loop        Oakland        ME

2713        iRaiders        Melrose        MA

2836        Team Beta        Woodbury        CT

3236        TriForct        Franklin        MA

3280        Rhode Rebels        Providence        RI

3323        Potential Energy        Litchfield        NH

3467        Windham Windup        Windham        NH

3499        River's Edge Robotics        Durham        NH

3525        The Nuts & Bolts of Fury        Waterbury        CT

3555        Aluminati        Storrs        CT

3566        Gone Fishin        Southborough        MA

3719        STEM Whalers        New London        CT

3958        Schrodinger's Cat        Boston        MA

4006        CIBorgs        Central Islip.        NY

4048        Redshift        Westborough        MA

4097        NHS Devilbots        Northampton        MA

4473        REM Delta Prime        Farmingdale        ME

5122        RobOTies        Old Town        ME

Re: BattleCry@WPI 15 - Reg opening soon!

I am super excited for Battlecry this year! Last year was a blast and with 60 teams, two full days of matches, and 20 alliances for eliminations, its going to be better than ever.

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Notice there is still some space for a couple more if anyone didn't get in! Additionally, we typically go pretty deep into the ready reserves, so sign up even if it is full.

FYI, the script to auto-update the list isn't running yet, so it will only update if we manually push the list. So if you sign your team up and it doesn't show right away, don't worry!

Excited to see lots of 'regulars' and a bunch of new teams in the mix as well!

Anyone have a guess of how many (and which) teams have been to all 15 BattleCry@WPI's? We'll be doing something special for them this year!

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Originally Posted by ColleenShaver (Post 1368882)

Anyone have a guess of how many (and which) teams have been to all 15 BattleCry@WPI's? We'll be doing something special for them this year!

Possibly 131, 190, 126? Maybe 125?

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Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell (Post 1368904)

Possibly 131, 190, 126? Maybe 125?

I'll bet 238 has made every one, and maybe the 121/78 teams can trace back to all 15.

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Originally Posted by AcesPease (Post 1368935)

I'll bet 238 has made every one, and maybe the 121/78 teams can trace back to all 15.

Maybe 88 also

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I believe 467 is in that club as well.

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We(2084) made it! This is our first time going.

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Are there any updates on the cost/availability of on-campus housing? Specifically for volunteers? I'd like to volunteer and I'm working out the logistics so it'd be nice to save some money and stay in a dorm if at all possible (I'm a senior in high school who doesn't quite like spending money).

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Changes for BC15

1. Bonus Circle ("BC") End Game Opportunity: Two 12-inch circles marked as a "BC" will be placed evenly-spaced under the truss for each match. 
•The BC does not have a designated color and is available for any robot to utilize as a scoring opportunity.
• The robot is considered to be completely covering a BC if no portion of the BC is visible outside the "belt line" of the robot (including its bumpers)
•AT THE END OF THE MATCH: •An alliance will be awarded 20 points if a robot of its color is completely covering a BC while in possession of that alliance's ball
•BC scores will be assessed 5 seconds after the match clock goes to zero or when rolling robots comes to rest.

The final 10 seconds of each march will be intense!