Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

3v3 matches with 16 (really 14+2*0.5) teams, new pit crews, new drivers and old robots is going to be hectic. I'll bet $1 >30% of robots will go onto the field partially broken at some point or miss a match to make repairs. I'll bet another $1 at least 1 robot will end eliminations in need of significant (>8min) repairs.

My advice (which as always should be taken with a grain of salt, I'm just a dude online typing words) to those responsible for fixing robots, you're not going to get any rest so make sure to keep water bottles in the pit with you and schedule time to eat with a reminder in your phone. Repeated back to back matches is a lot of stress on robots without much cooldown time so be on the lookout for creeping failures.

Enjoy the competition! :]

Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

2 v 2, 3 v 3, Who knows? Doesn't really matter. Not about the Robot etc....

Looking forward to great day.
The rain outside should make the colors in the fall trees better.

The competition inside will prime the pump for the next season.

Car started, Road waiting.

Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

I can't wait to see everyone there!!

Good Luck!

Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

Thank you all for coming out to "Rumble"! Wow was that fun.

Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

Great off-season event! I'm sure that all the teams attending will agree!

Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

This event ran very, very well, and the short turnaround time ended up not being a huge issue for us at all. A well timed lunch break, plenty of patience from the field staff and queuing, and quality teams with durable robots all helped to make for a great event with a ton of matches.

Thanks to 3044 and 2809 for selecting us. We had been hoping to play with 3044 for most of the season, so it was great that we finally got the chance. The alliance was easy to work with and a lot of fun to play with, even if none of us were at 100% the entire time. We're sorry about all the issues we had with our arm winch cable in the elims! Par for the course for a Shaker Robotics elimination run, I guess.

Re: NY Tech Valley Robot Rumble - October 4
 

On behalf of team 145, I would like to thank everybody associated with this event. It was very well run for a first year competition. I am sure we will be back next year, I hope more teams will be able to fit this event into their schedule. Thanks to teams 190 and 839 for being great alliance partners and to all of the other teams for some great matches through the day.
See you all at RPI in March!!!