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That autonomous is really impressive and your robot looks outstanding.

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Here's a quick highlight reel from our two regionals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIT3eTgrhhE

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I was just looking at our match schedule on the Google Docs pre-scouting spreadsheet and saw that our schedule difficulty was -39. I knew it was a tough schedule, but as I scrolled around, I saw that it was indeed The Toughest schedule on Archimedes.

After having a ridiculously tough schedule on Curie last year, I have to say that it is a bit frustrating. We don't mind being the underdog sometimes, it can be a motivating force. However, in a game that is so reliant on alliance partners, it can be a bit demoralizing.

I'm hoping that the flaws in using OPR to predict match outcomes are big enough to give us room to give us a fighting chance. Otherwise, we are just going to play our best, help our alliance partners as much as we can and hope for scouting magic.

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Don't put any weight into the OPR. It's ugly and its momma dresses it funny.

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That's what I like to hear!

Match schedule aside, we couldn't be more excited if we were meta-stable nuclear isomers.:]

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Hey everyone! Here at Zero Gravity, we're excited to play with a lot of you on Archimedes! Here is just a recap video of our entire season!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYax2uZIkcs

It's disabled on all mobile platforms unfortunately :/
We can't wait for this week!

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That is why I don't like this year's game. The outcome of the match depends too much on your partners.
Don't worry what the OPR predicts in terms of wins and losses. I would not completely ignore it like somebody else says. Teams that went to multiple events and have a high OPR at every event got that for a reason. It is not by luck. If the prediction is 200 to 100 against you, chances are it is 99% (I just picked a random number, not based on statistics) certain that you will lose. In that case you should try something drastic because you have nothing to lose. There is also a small chance that one of your opponents robot malfunction, so never give up. On the other hand, if many of the predicted matches that you will lose is only by less than 30 points, it is a 50/50 chance you may win. Most people that does prediction use max OPR. It does not tell the whole story. You should also use last OPR and world OPR to predict to see if it is any different. Data is never ugly. It is only how you use it that can be.

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I can attest to this as well. Predictions by OPR were 91% accurate on Saturday at MSC and around an 82% accuracy overall in any regional/district. Close matches are a toss up. But I'd say above a 50 point differential and you will have to come up with a pretty crazy strategy...

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Match 155 - 20,900,1939. If 20 and 900 can incorporate 1939 well then they very possibly could run 41 point cycles in under 15 seconds. Think secret sauce to the HP then HP passes to 20 in front of the goal. That has the possibility to be one of the greatest matches this year.

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I wonder what predictions look like if you change OPR this year to an adjusted number like percent of OPR rank at event.

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We definitely plan to incorporate into the plan. This match is going to be fun!

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Dang Skippy ..... Get out there and show what 'ya got. The smart teams are paying attention and scouting reguardless of OPR.

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Team 4296 will be posting videos of all matches in Archimedes on our Youtube channel after everyday to help with scouting.

https://www.youtube.com/user/WTHSFIRST4296

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To all our fellow teams on the Archimedes Field who want to make alliances on the field and off. Our team's version of "Chozen" (a parody from Frozen):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1wxQS8fuVI

Good luck to everyone and lets have some fun!

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After a scary morning teams 3467 and 4925 are more excited to be on Archimedes this weekend. 12 hours before our bus was leaving New Hampshire we were told our bus had broken down with no replacements available!

Thankfully we snuck 4925 on the remaining seats on 811 and 319s bus and 3467 was able to rent some vans at the last second and 133 and 58 were able to take our equipment at the last second.

Phew what a weekend and I cant wait to compete!

We may need to borrow a driver station laptop to run some practice matches as our main team will be arriving tomorrow evening.