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EVENT DETAILS
Duel on the Delaware – FIRST off-season event
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Salem Community College, DuPont Field House
Carneys Point, NJ
Hosted by FRC Teams 316 and 365
Website: http://moe365.org/duel2014/index.php
Registration: $250 ($200 if registered and paid before June 30)

• FIRST TECH CHALLENGE Scrimmage and training courses (game to be announced)
• Charity Book Drive with partner “Success Won’t Wait” – start saving those books, top two team who bring most books by weight, will be recognized.
• Mock Chairmans Award judging (to be confirmed)

TEAM EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
Thanks to teams who have paid their registration fee. To take advantage of the early bird registration fee, payment must be received by June 30. If your team would like to take advantage of this discount, you have two weeks to do so.

WAITLIST PROCEDURE
To be defined. It will be communicated in a future DUEL INFO BLAST.

TEAM LIST
34 Team Maximum Capacity
Current team status: Full capacity with one back-up team so far

Team # Team Name
75 RoboRaiders
87 RV Robotics
203 Camden County Tech ./ Campbell's Soup
225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
316 LuNaTecs
321 RoboLancers
341 Miss Daisy
357 Royal Assault
365 MOE/Miracle Workerz
375 The Robotic Plague
384 SPARKY
433 Firebirds
533 PSIcotics
816 Westech Anomaly
836 RoboBees
1089 Team Mercury
1111 The Power Hawks
1218 Vulcan Robotics
1370 Thermogenesis
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1915 Firebird Robotics
2495 Hamilton West Robotics
2528 RoboDoves
2729 Storm Robotics Team
3151 Cyberstorm
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
4342 Demon Robotics
4575 THE TIN MINTS
4637 BambiBotz
4954 4-H Palindrome Robotics
5080 Alchemy

Waitlisted team
1719 The Umbrella Corporation

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UPDATED

2014 DUEL INFO BLAST #3

Duel on the Delaware
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Salem Community College- Davidow Hall
Carneys Point, NJ

FOCUS OF THIS COMMUNICATION – Reminders

Deadline – Paid registration (or we slot in paid waitlisted teams) – October 1
Deadline – Duel Master Volunteer Award (Application template attached) – October 1
Deadline – Mock Chairman’s Interview slots – October 1



(1) CHARITY BOOK DRIVE – Success Won’t Wait
- Continue to collect your used books for our charity book drive competition.
- Teams bringing the most books by weight will receive a trophy and special awards.
- Textbooks, encyclopedias and magazines not accepted
- Books are donated to Success Won’t Wait, a literacy non-profit. The mission is to encourage reading, especially for those in need and children.
- ** PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING YOUR TEAM COLLECT BOOKS FOR THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE **
- For more information, check out www.successwontwait.org

(2) MIKE WADE MEMORIAL “DUEL MASTER VOLUNTEER” AWARD
- Mentor/Volunteer of the year award
- Please take the time to recognize an mentor/volunteer on your team by nominating them.
- Teams can submit one nominee who has not yet won the award from their team.
- Nomination form is attached. Please complete and return by October 1st

(3) CHAIRMANS AWARD WARM-UP PRACTICE *2nd year*
- This is not an award per se, but is an opportunity for teams to practice their Chairman’s Award presentation in front of judges
- Teams interested in participating must do the following:
o Respond by October 1st or earlier to let me know that your team is interested in participating. We will have 6 (six) judging slots. These will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
o Send in a FIRST Chairman’s Award Executive Summary (same as FIRST typically requires for the Chairman’s Award). We expect that teams will just send in the same Executive Summary that they may have used for their Chairman’s Award earlier this year.
o Due date for Chairman’s Award Executive Summary is October 5th
o Prepare to present your Chairman’s Award to judges at the Duel. Currently, the presentation would be the same as a typical Chairman’s presentation at an official FIRST event. Depending upon the number of teams who are participating, we reserve the right to modify the presentation time. We expect that it will not change.
o Let us know what you need for your presentation (AV, easels, etc.)
- Our purpose for doing this is to provide teams another opportunity to practice with real judges (we expect to have at least one of the judges be an experienced Chairman’s Award judge) and to provide some helpful feedback for teams as they prepare for the 2015 competition season.

(4) DUEL DESIGN INNOVATION AWARD
- Judges will talk with teams to recognize most outstanding design innovation teams can demonstrate on this year’s robot.
- No prework is necessary, unless your teams want to prepare something to illustrate your design innovation to judges.

GENERAL INFO
- Doors will open at 7am.
- Robot drop off is possible on Friday, October 17th as long as it is no later than 5:00pm. Please let us know beforehand if you plan to drop a bot off early
- If any mentors/parents/alum from your teams are interested in volunteering for the Duel, please let me know.
- Travel details available at http://www.moe365.org/duel2014/index.php

FIRST TECH CHALLENGE PLAY-DAY/SCRIMMAGE/WORKSHOPS
- New FTC game field will be available
- Registration limited. Contact Joe Perrotto at Joseph.A.Perrotto@dupont.com for more information

REGISTERED TEAMS (we currently have a full field of 34 teams)

REGISTERED & PAID

Team # Team Name
87 RV Robotics
203 Camden County Tech ./ Campbell's Soup
316 LuNaTecs
321 RoboLancers
357 Royal Assault
365 MOE/Miracle Workerz
375 The Robotic Plague
433 Firebirds
533 PSIcotics
816 Westech Anomaly
836 RoboBees
1089 Team Mercury
1111 The Power Hawks
1370 Thermogenesis
1626 Falcon Robotics
1640 Sab-BOT-age
1647 Iron Devils
1915 Firebird Robotics
2528 RoboDoves
2729 Storm Robotics Team
3151 Cyberstorm
3941 Absolute Zero Electricity
4342 Demon Robotics
4575 THE TIN MINTS
4637 BambiBotz
4954 4-H Palindrome Robotics

REGISTERED AND NOT PAID

Team # Team Name
75 RoboRaiders
225 TechFire
271 Mechanical Marauders
341 Miss Daisy
384 SPARKY
1218 Vulcan Robotics
2495 Hamilton West Robotics
5080 Alchemy

WAITLISTED & PAID

1719 Umbrella Academy

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Teams competing at Duel on the Delaware 2014 -

As with last year, I hope to visit the event with (hopefully) 2 GoPros and a Point-and-Shoot camcorder in tow. If all goes well, I plan on offering to record teams during their matches by putting a GoPro on their robot, another on their driver station, and using the point-and-shoot to record the robot from the stands. Here's a playlist of the compilation videos I made at last year's Duel on the Delaware (Thanks again, 75, 225, 1370, 1640, 3314, and 3974!).

If any teams would like to volunteer to let me record one of their matches this year, feel free to PM me.

See everyone in <20 days. :)

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Here is a little preview of the trophies. Only 23 hours of printing left.

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Man those look amazing.

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Hello everyone,

I am from team 75. I would first like to say our team truly enjoyed last years event hosted by teams 365 and 316.

We were looking forward to participating with you guys again, but unfortunately our team is having some logistical issues this year.

We send our regards and wish all the teams good luck.

-Adam Solovay

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Are there any plans for a webcast of the event?

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Yes.

I will be running it. Tentatively it will be live at this link:

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

There is a chance that we may be shut down by YouTube if we can't strip out the music from the announcer. If this happens we will switch over to

http://www.twitch.tv/MOE365/

I hope everything goes smoothly.

ATTENTION ALL TEAMS
Team 375 needs robot batteries to compete in the DoD. A water leak in thier building has recently destroyed the majority of thier battery supply. If you have extra batteries to loan, please bring them with you and loan them to our friends on the Robotic Plague.

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Team 341 is excited to once again be competing at Duel on the Delaware.

Also, we packed a few extra batteries for another team already so there may be a couple that can be shared. Just let us know!

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And we are LIVE at

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

Practice matches are about to begin!

Just like last year, I will try to update the webcast viewers on the standings by uploading a picture to this link:
https://app.box.com/s/7qw6v3ym4n0g7w8za942
I will update it as much as I can (whenever I can get a break from the switch board). URL should stay the same.

Alliance Selections

1. 4281 225 375
2. 2607 384 369
3. 4954 341 226
4. 316 1640 1089
5. 1647 1218 2729
6. 357 203 1111
7. 433 365 1626
8. 1719 2528 4342

Robots on the field, Elims starting after the Mike Wade Award

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If anyone at the event is monitoring this, something quite wrong is happening to the stream. It looks like some signals are getting mixed...

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Indeed: http://grab.by/BmSM

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Nathan is aware, the mechanical switcher broke, so he is now operating it manually with pliers.

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I can see it, but is there a stats page anywhere? TheBlueAlliance doesn't have it. Perhaps a twitter feed?

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No, sorry, no live event data, the Box file Brian posted has the end of qual stats and you can rewind the webcast to get the elim matches...

As for the webcast this is what I am dealing with......

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B__Q...X1U/edit?pli=1

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That's just FRC standard repair procedures. Good work!

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No duct tape or zip ties. Am disappoint. :D

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Storm Robotics wants to send its sincerest gratitude to everyone at the Duel for the work they've done to organize and run this event.

FTC 4390 and 7433 had a great day at the scrimmage and were able to get their bots running on the playing field yesterday.

FRC 2729 gave it our best, thanks to our sister team 1647 for picking us and to 1218 for being great partners and collaborators as always. Fonzie, our robot, is now retired from this wild and crazy season!

Congrats to the winning alliance and all of the award winners from the event. You all were class acts throughout the entire event.

Again, thank you to everyone with 365 and 316 for organizing another great event. Events like these recharge me and get our team psyched for the upcoming season.

Nate

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Can someone post the results and the awards please?

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Finalists: 2607, 384, 369
Champions: 316, 1640, 1089
Duel Master: Rosanne Danner from 316
I am not sure about the other two awards.

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The student judged awards were Engineering Innovation given to 1089, Spirit to 203, and Best Comeback to 375 for their lab's flooding.

Pictures I took from the event are up on MOE's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MOERobotics. For better quality I would encourage looking at the pics through the flickr link.

Thanks to all who attended! It was a fantastic competition and the match replays were quite suspenseful. And to Mike from LuNaTeCs, the awards were beautiful!

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Here is a list of all recognition for the event:

Mike Wade Duel Master Volunteer nominees:

316 Rosanne Danner
357 Beth Hale
365 Bob Dudek
375 Allan Bailey
384 David Cohen
1089 Julie Kudish
3151 Kim Watkins

2014 Duel Master Volunteer: Rosanne Danner Team 316

Success Won't Wait Book Drive

Over 6 tons of books collected! Thanks for all team donations!

Book Drive Winner: Team 3151
Runner-up: Team 533 (delivery) / Team 271 (collection)

Event Champions:
316
1089
1640

Event Finalists:
2607
384
369

Student-judged Awards:

Best Comeback: 375
Engineering Innovation: 1089
Team Spirit: 203

Congratulations to all those recognized!!!!

Duel on the Delaware - Thank You's
 

Duel Thank Yous:

Bob Dudek - Event Coordinator
Jeff Chambers - Volunteer Coordinator
Joe Troy - FIRST Technical Advisor
Salem Community College
DuPont, South Jersey Robotics, First State Robotics - Event sponsors
Katie Stevens, Libby Kamen, Jeff Bunca - Emcees
Chris Gregory - play-by-play announcer
Sunny Hung - Head Referee
NJ Freeholders
Our opening ceremony speakers
Salem Community College Oak Singers

All volunteers - this would not be possible without you!

All attending teams - you bring the energy and make the event exciting!

Have a great remainder of the off-season. See you at kick-off in January!

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Awesome event as always. Congratulations to 316, 1640, and 1089!

Double Congratulations to 1089 for a back-to-back duel win!

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I believe 1640 are now back-to-back winners as well. Congrats!

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As you point out, both 1640 and 1089 are back to back winners.

This is 1640's 4th consecutive Dual win. It has been quite a run, so far.

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Team 384 SPARKY would like to thank the Duel on the Delaware staff for putting on a great event, we will be back. A special thanks to John Larock for putting up with all the blocked and bounced email due to the our school filters.

Thanks to all the teams that helped us out we could not travel with our usual team and equipment.

SPARKY was truly appreciative of our fellow 2014 Va. Regional partner 2607 Fighting Robo-Vikings for picking us again for another great run at the eliminations, maybe next year we can return the favor. We would also like to thank 369 High Voltage for joining the alliance.

Congratulations to 316 Lunatecs, 1640 Sabotage and 1089 Team Mercury for winning the Duel on the Delaware 2014 it was some of the best Final matches with have ever been in. We hope that SPARKY can get the opportunity to play with you guys at sometime instead of against.

Thanks to all ounce again, we enjoyed making new friends and reuniting with old. Good luck in the coming season - see you guys in St. Louis 2015.
Clarke

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Connor.

No worries about the e-mail bounce-backs! We are simply glad that you guys could join us for your VERY FIRST DUEL! We expect to see you back next October!

All the best this coming season.

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Right back at ya 384. Getting another chance to see you guys, let alone play in the eliminations, was a blast. Hopefully the waitlist will let us back into Virginia for the coming season so we can meet up again. I wish I personally had been able to coach at the competiton, but unfortunately I had another commitment for band. :(

And of course, thank you to MOE for holding this event. The team had a great time, and the addition of a webcast (with great support too) was absolutely wonderful for those who couldn't attend in person. We will too be back again next year.

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Pics taken at the event (of all teams. Well, most) are posted at:

https://www.facebook.com/MOERobotics

https://www.flickr.com/photos/128751...7648852395585/


Enjoy!

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Thanks for putting on a great event. I had a great time. Go Moe!

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Team 341, Miss Daisy, had a great day at Duel on the Delaware! As always, it was a great opportunity to try out new drivers, indoctrinate our newest members to Daisy spirit, and overall just have our student members try new things.

Thank you to MOE and Lunatecs for putting on a consistently great event. Everything ran smoothly and it was a lot of fun!

Thank you to 4954 4-H Palindrome Robotics and 226 TechFire Beta for forming such an awesome alliance. It was great fun strategizing with you both to get as far as we did in elims!

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Thank you guys for coming out! I'm glad you had fun and brought the spirit with your dancing.
Just to clarify, 226 was a pre-rookie team, Velocity, based out of Cumberland, NJ. TechFire generously lent them their practice bot.

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Awesome event, as always. What else would you expect from 316 and 365? :)

I had the amazing opportunity to GoPro-up FRC Team 4954, Palindrome, during their whirlwind elimination run. I was able to attach one GoPro onboard their robot, another recording their drive team, and I also operated a handheld camcorder from the side of the field focused on their robot. There were a few small camera issues here and there, but for the most part I was able to overlay all three feeds into a single compilation video for each of their elimination matches. You can watch the videos for yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...2OO07V4VAMd3qp.

Thanks again to the members of Team 4954, you were all extremely welcoming and patient. Hopefully we get to work together some more in the future!

Best of luck to everyone throughout the upcoming offseasons and in the 2015 season. :D

P.S. I'll also be attending girlPOWER, Ramp Riot, and possibly Brunswick Eruption in the coming weeks, so if any other teams would also like to get GoPro-ed, feel free to let me know!

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Ah, thank you. I was misinformed. Even better though!

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I believe the full name was Veloci-Tech-Luna-Fire-Rex

#best name ever :D

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Here is a slow motion .gif of one of the coolest blocked shots all season:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B__...h5NVdfUk0/view

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Did they count that ball as scored, since it was a blue robot scoring a red ball?

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Eventually yes.