Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Yay! Go 256!

All joking aside, the event was hella fun.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Team 1836: The Milkenknights had a lot of fun at Chezy Champs and would like to thank team 254 for hosting a phenomenal offseason event.

Congratulations to teams 3476, 971, and 968 for winning it all against a tough finalist alliance in 254, 973, and 604.

Starting my fourth year on the team off as an alliance captain and personally representing our team at alliance selection was a new and very interesting learning experience for me, and my team really enjoyed working with team 696 again (they picked us at ventura) and 3859 for the first time on our elims alliance.

We would also like to thank teams 3309 and 1678 for helping us fix our elevator before our first elims match and teams 254, 696, 3859, and 1983 for helping us fix our intake before our second elims match.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Thanks to 254 for a fantastic off-season event and huge congrats to the winning alliance!

For me, that final match was more interesting than watching 2015 Einstein finals!

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Another awesome Chezy Champs.

It is the most pleasant, relaxed, professional and well run event we've ever competed at.

Congrats to our buddies on 3476, 971 and 968. Awesome to see these teams perform so well. Also great to see a team I've been a long time fan of (968) win the event for the alliance.

Thanks to our partners 254 and 604. Always good to play with the poofs, and we're very sorry to 604 that this game is so awful that them sitting was the best strategy.

Looking forward to a great event next year!

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Pat: "Up first on the red alliance, it's Team 973!"
Tom: "It's the fighting AdamHeards!"

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Doubling down on an off-by-one.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Videos of the finals can be found over here on one of 971's Youtube channels.

https://www.youtube.com/user/smanrobotics/videos

Thank you to 254, 604, 968, 971, 973, & 3476 for an incredible set of matches! Recycle Rush wasn't perfect but those matches were some of the most exciting to watch of the year.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Also up there with those performances is 254 doing an auto and 4 capped stacks out of the landfill. 254 continues to show that they can field top performing robots and drive teams, in addition to putting on world class events. Thanks for continuing to make Chezy Champs such a fun time (despite the recycle rush).

We had a real blast playing with 3476 and 968. Thanks again for picking us and making such great partners, we look forward to playing with both of you in the future!

Huge thanks to 254, 973, and 604 for some amazing finals matches. You guys were a top notch alliance, it just goes to show what we missed seeing at champs.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Hi everyone,

We've put together a feedback survey to help us improve Chezy Champs for next year. If you were there or watched the webcast, please fill it out!

Thanks,

Pat Fairbank
Event Manager, Chezy Champs 2015

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

You'll be happy to know there's a committee forming as we speak full of people that have done things that will take the pain of deciding away for you.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

4 capped stacks out of the landfill? Anyone got a video? I personally thought that 254 was the best robot this year as far as 1 robot goes, but landfill bots make for better for alliance selection due to overuse of the human player station. This would prove 254 as the best HP and Landfill bot...

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

They did it in a qual, and several times in elims.

They are definitely the best landfill robot, and the best HP robot.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

cool, did they ever do full landfill at worlds? I always thought they did 1 stack from the landfill and 3 from the human player every match. Obviously, they would have been limited to 3 full stacks at worlds due to the rules. Then again, a team that amazing may have been able to stack upside down stacks if they invent some sort of 135 lift system that uses plungers. 135's was for their can though.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

It is worth noting that there was no noodle throwing allowed at Chezy Champs, which made things a bit less chaotic in the landfill.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

I forgot about that rule change. Many teams such as 2056 and 1114 should have been consistent at 3 full stacks in the landfill but weren't due to noodles in the way. The rule change is good for productivity of landfill robots but stinks for teams like mine who had a human player that has been referred to as "a god of a human play" on CD and was good at throwing noodles. Haha. And 254's drive system wasn't really the best for going over noodles if I remember right...

Plus 254 made their first stack for each match in the landfill and was insanely fast but that was before noodles got in the way. 254 with the correct drive would have been an amazing landfill bot. Keep up the good work guys. I always love seeing 254 machines.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

I'm not sure you could say definitely... There are a lot of very good teams out there. 254 I would say definitely comes out on top with well roundness for 2015, but there are some more specialist robots that would definitely give them a run for their money.

Congrats to both the finalist alliances, those were some fantastic matches!

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

The Skunks had another great time at Chezy Champs!!
thanks go to Team 3309 and team 841 who accepted our invitations to play in the finals.

They were great team mates and we hope to team up again next year.
The game was fun to play and certainly the changes made in the rules could have made the St. Louis finals different. It was a different game and seemed to play better for many teams. It was always played right to the end of every match as shown in the finals. Very exciting to see so many stacks go up. 15 stacks were up in the very final match.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered and worked at the event!! You were all very gracious and a joy to work with and be around.
Thanks to all of the teams. Even though we were the only non-California team there, we felt right at home.

Hopefully we will be able to come back next year.... with bumpers....

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Another top quality event by Team 254. Although our robot didn't perform as well as we hoped, our students and mentors had a good experience and we enjoyed the event. I know that it's no small undertaking to put on an event like this, and we appreciate all your hard work to make it happen.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

I think 3476 might have had them out of the HP. In quals they put up 5 stacks, albeit one without a cap.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Code Orange, team 3476, had a blast working with 971 and 968 in elims, mad props to 971 for a complete redesign that was executed extremely well.
Thanks 254 for hosting one of our favorite events of the year, and the only one who has came close to fixing recycle rush..

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

For those of use who watched the webcast, would you like us to mark fields that we can't comment on, like "Volunteer Helpfulness", or "Traffic Flow" a 5? A 10? What will best help you get the data you want?

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Give us whatever you feel like and then make a note in the comment field :cool:

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

You're forgetting that during season, 254 didn't have 3 extra easy to grab cans. And in a match they would co-op, landfill a stack, and then make three stacks from human player, all the while avoiding their tether and noodles on the field. 3476 spent the entire match at the HP station and had all their cans set right next to their ramp. Efficient, but easy set up.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

I think what everyone loved about chezy champs was no noodle throwing. For champs, 973 set up a worst-case noodled landfill to practice with:https://youtu.be/OhSe7BvzLS0

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Do you guys always use the bandroom for your practice field?

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

For any of the teams who took advantage of the photo opportunity, you can find your robot photos here.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

These are gorgeous photos. More offseason events should do something like this!

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

The photo you have labeled as 5499_Confirm is actually 968.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Looks like they were switched. "968_Confirm_Team" is actually 5499.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

It looks like a couple of teams are missing from that folder. The first one I noticed is my team (1836). Our robot has a black 6 wheel drivetrain (4 coulson 2 omnis) and black/blue elevator. I also noticed 1678 and 973's pictures are also missing. I am not sure if they went to have their robots photographed, but I am sure my team had ours. The confusion was probably because our robot is missing our team numbers.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

I'll post the rest here within the next couple days.

Re: Team 254 Presents: Chezy Champs 2015
 

Well, it's been more than a couple days, but I finally got the missing photos uploaded. These were taken the second day of the event and did not get touched up.

This batch included the following teams:

604
696
841
971
973
1678
1836
2085
2135
4543