Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

At the MAR CMP, they used the basketball scoreboard to show which match was being played and which match was being queued.

I can imagine a simple 3-digit display (two, actually, for each division) hung up high where everyone in the pits can see them. When your match number is shown, go queue.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

Lets get 400 of the square restaurant pagers... and have someone paging teams when its time for them to queue.

Just keep it in your pit, and when it vibrates and lights up, its time for you to queue up.

That would be the holy-grail of awesome queueing in my opinion. Some of the better ones have a pretty good range.

Skip the pagers and use up to 10 free text reminders per match.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

I don't know about the other divisions, but the matches on Curie were often ahead of schedule, which caused a lot of teams to be late for their matches.

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Interesting. Most of our matches were played behind schedule.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

Hey, 5125 gets assists now.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

I don't know about everyone else, but many on our team have had poor cell service in the pit area. This may cause issues with the text system.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

Definitely true. I think its just overloaded cell networks. Texting is not a reliable method of communication currently between our contingent in the stands and the pits.

-Brando

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

The Griffins are proud to have shared the field and pits with the amazing teams on Curie! It's been an incredible year and we're thrilled to have made it Champs for the first time.

Good luck to all the elimination alliances and hopefully one of you guys will end the 'curse'!

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

So.... that red side of the bracket.... wow. 1 v 8 and 4 v 5 will feature Einstein levels of play.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

This sure was an exciting competition. Congrats to 254, 469, 2848, and 74 on your division and championship win! You guys played extremely well and knew you would go all the way. Would like to give a special thanks to 2928 for picking us as well as 2013 and 1311 for being great alliance partners. Was a pleasure working with you guys. We may not have won but we are extremely proud for making it to the semifinals for such an incredibly tough division. Also congrats to everyone in the division for such a high performance all around.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

It was a very different rob ot than the one I saw in Chicago.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

We were alliance partners in the last qualification match with 5125. We went over to the pits to work with them to get ready and 3 students showed up. I asked them how things had been going and if the rest of the team was in the stands. They responded with good and that no they only had 3 students on the team. I noticed the students look very young as well. They were all three seventh graders and only had three team members. WOW, my mind was blown at this point. They said they are excited about the upcoming year and have already started recruiting some new members for the team.

Members from Ctrl-Z 4069 came to Champs with the team to assist them in the competition.

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

I ditto the comments made by Rangel! It was great being picked. I went on record as saying that we would not be picked... It seems that alliances pick teams without using any data. But Alas we were picked and we are extremely grateful for this! We felt that our robot was underestimated by many, and I hope we showed that. We really like the four team alliances! I don't believe in curses but it was still fun to help break one anyway!

Re: 2014 Curie Division
 

That was the plan :D The students wanted to be competitive and be able to do a 3-assist cycle then go full defense. I wanted to add more orange.