2014 - MadTown ThrowDown Registration
 

Hi Teams,

Another year for our annual offseason hosted by Team 1323 and hopefully 1671!

The event will be held on November 7-9. Friday will be practice/setup/pit load in. Saturday will be a full day of qualification matches with elimination matches on Sunday. Must be at the event on both Saturday/Sunday.

Cost: $200 per robot (same price for practice robot)
Robot Weight Limit: 130 lbs
Maximum Slots: 32

Event Location: Madera High School North Campus on 200 South "L" Street - Madera, CA
Date: November 7th - 9th.
Payment is Due by: October 24th
Please mail to:

Attention: Jason Smith - Robotics Adviser
200 South "L" Street
Madera, CA 93637

A paypal option is available as well, please email me for more info.
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Rule Changes:

Will be announced later, will be following after IRI/CC.

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To Register - Must fill out form to be able to compete: Click Here

Please share this email with any team you think that would be interested. Spots are first come, first serve. 2nd/3rd robot entries may not get in depending on the # of teams registered. But we will let teams know 1 month in advance.

Edit: 15/32 Spots filled!

Thanks!

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1678 is registered!

We had a great time at MTTD 2013 and can't wait to tear it up in CenCal again!

-Mike

PS. Suns out, guns out!

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I can taste the Players BBQ already!

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FYI, both 100 and 971 are planning on going ATM. I'm pumped, this going to be awesome!

And I can almost smell the cows already!

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Don't worry, you get used to it real quick. :rolleyes:

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2813 Signed up but never got a confirmation email, was one ever sent out?

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No,

Sorry we just log all applicants into a google doc and then send out an email at the end of the month or sooner if we reach 32 teams.

Edit: currently at 22/32 robots. Only 10 more spots left.

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Not sure if you had us down or not but we will definitely be there

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Currently at 27/32 Robots.

Will release team list once we fill up.

Thanks,

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Do we have a team list we could look at please?

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Final Team List (34 Robots Total): Team # - # of Robots

1323 - 2
973 - 3
1678 - 1
3970 - 1
2813 - 1
971 - 3
4543 - 2
2073 - 2
100 - 1
2135 - 2
4498 - 2
852 - 1
1671 - 2
254 - 1
1422 - 1
5458 - 1
841 - 2
4973 - 1
295 - 2
3495 - 1
1662 - 1
4255 - 1

I will be sending out an email this week with more information

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That has to be a record number of practice/freshman bots.

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Due to some random requests I'm going to do an impromptu workshop Saturday on motor curves, arm/elev/system gearing/motor selection, and similar math for drivetrains.

Exact location and time TBD, but likely Saturday afternoon.

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Can this workshop be filmed for those who are unable to attend?

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We are planning a filming of Adam's workshop and hope to have it available to the public via 973 RAMP.

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To all those interested in attending, the workshop details have been finalized. The workshop will be at 10am Saturday (during practice matches, so no real matches will be missed) in the Madtown robotics lab classroom (see attached image totally not made in MS Paint). There will be signs out detailing where to go, and an announcement will be made during the event.

Even if you cannot make the workshop, if you have any specific topics you would like Adam to go over relating to these subjects, post them here or message me and I will let him know.

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Are there any plans to webcast this event? I looked on TBA and 1323's website and didn't see a link.

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Will be on TBA day of event.

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We're hitting the road in less than two hours.

See you all very soon!

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Will the RAMP session be providing players smoked bbq?

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I HEARD there will be BBQ provided at no charge?

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Any chance of getting a webcast?

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Stream is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg6QkBdbaEU

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Ah, schedule's up. Can't wait for the matches to start!

--T. Kawa

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973 verse all lol

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Is the webcast going to be up for eliminations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zanvAQ0xknA looks like the right stream ("MadTown ThrowDown Day 2") but it has been saying "Please Stand By. We're experiencing technical difficulties" all day.

EDIT: Nevermind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLK4Kmvp21w was pointed out to me.

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Team 254 had an awesome time at Madtown Throwdown. Thanks to Team 1323, Team 1671, and all the volunteers for putting on the event!

Also, thanks to Adam Heard for his workshop on Saturday. Myself and the 254 drive-team learned a lot.

We're looking forward to MTTD next year!

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Thank you all for coming down, and thank you for bringing your truss last minute and saving the competition when our field didn't ship with one. Y'all seriously should have gotten the GP award for that. Congrats on the win guys, and we hope to see you next year.

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Any chance that Adam's workshop was recorded?

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I have the workshop recorded and the video will be uploaded via 973 RAMP soon.

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Are the videos from eliminations going to be archived anywhere? They were some pretty intense matches, especially the last finals match (I believe it was the highest combined score of 2014).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLK4Kmvp21w
The stream on youtube has all of the Elimination matches recorded in it.

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Thanks!

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Don't get your hopes up too high! It was pretty unplanned so I ramble a lot.

I highly recommend watching Ken's motor presentation with Gamesense from last week first. I took advantage of that having aired to not explain the motor side of things too much, and instead focus on the "Get stuff done" aspect of gearing.

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I learned a lot from Ken's presentation, surprisingly. The table he had for making decisions on the diameter of the winch drum was an incredibly simple but effective way to communicate the ramifications of decisions the mechanical team could make and in terms that non-theory engineers can understand. This is always my biggest hurdle with my team. There are several other seemingly small things that can help others on my team understand consequences of some of the decisions they make.

Even if you think you ramble too much, I bet there are still nuggets of great info. "Getting stuff done" right the first time is actually hard to do sometimes.