Maize Craze Admin Manual?
 

My team is considering doing an off-season event of Maize Craze sometime next spring.

Does anyone have any information on how the Maize Craze championship worked? (ie. how teams were ranked; rounds of matches; advancing to next round)

Thanks!

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Can someone explain why the FRC website itself only goes back to 2002?

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They were probably saving space by not putting that information up.

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... /s?

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More room for blogs? I dunno.
Thank God for the Technokats.

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I don't think I ever realized the scale of that first game. All the pictures I've seen up till now always seemed like the playing field and robots were much smaller. This looks basically FTC scale, if not a bit bigger.

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The Robot started small and grew in size. Then in recent years have gotten smaller. (2012-> 2013)

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The pictures here give you a good idea of how large the robots were that year.

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More importantly that sounds like one of the coolest offseasons ever. I think it'd be awesome to have a recurring offseason that played old games every year. It'd be really cool to see how teams could iterate on a design and really see an FRC game evolve over the years.

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Thanks, now you done made me look through the old history project. Also, I found this gem: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/YH...=w 2560-h1391

Absolutely Photoshop worthy.

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Thanks so much for that information!

I do have one question however. How was it decided which teams were on each side ("Winner's" or "Loser's") of the bracket?

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& then could be nearly any size this year, other than a height restriction

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If you are considering hosting an off-season FRC-class event different from that year's game I'd suggest you check out BunnyBots. Each year we develop a different game that is played with FRC-class robots. We intentionally keep these games simpler than a FRC game so that new members can get their feet wet before the FRC season gets underway.

BunnyBots has been a big hit in Oregon with around 24 teams taking part each season. This year's game will be released Sept 1st. We'd be happy to have more regions taking part.

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Umm.... The name should say it all? You lose, you end up on that side. Otherwise, you're on the winner's side.


Actually, I'm going to go for one of my favorite old threads, dedicated to discussion of the Bracket of DOOM! There's a link to a picture of the bracket for 1998 (incidentally, the last year of that type of bracket).


On another note: I 100% agree with Ed. That TechnoKats History Project is really great for finding little gems of past games--I often go straight there when I'm working up a new "simplified game rules" for my strategy workshop.

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I was trying to trace back my old team's (45) path through the bracket of doom and it's pretty confusing.

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They kept score that year... and winning was a thing.

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This makes more sense... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFOvldn_IRw

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Cool idea! I'm not sure how many teams still have their Maize Craze robot (maybe 126 does, I don't know), but it still sounds like a fun event!

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I think 190 still might have their robot. However I think they intend to make new robots as a design exercise.

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20 brought their robot to FLR to display. FIRST has our robot at FIRST place. They do not intend to give it back. 148,151, 45 and 111 probably would not attend.

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I managed to figure out how the team names seeming suddenly teleport to the other side of the bracket. Sorry for asking! And now to code this in my Field Management System......

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45 brings the '92 robot to many events throughout the year such as the Kokomo District Qualifying Event.

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If I might make a suggestion, it might be more fun (and easier) to do it the old-fashioned way.


Take a big sheet of paper (or a whiteboard, or some equivalent) and draw the whole bracket. Give each match a number. Then, for the second round and beyond, each spot in each match gets a number, dash, and number--representing the match feeding it and which result from that match it is.


You could also do this in a particularly creative way, but that would probably be harder (or would it be more fun?)