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FlamingSpork 28-07-2015 14:29

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!

Koko Ed 28-07-2015 14:33

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Originally Posted by FlamingSpork (Post 1491609)
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!

Go here.

Andrew Schreiber 28-07-2015 14:37

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 1491610)

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

Koko Ed 28-07-2015 15:17

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber (Post 1491614)
Can someone explain why the FRC website itself only goes back to 2002?

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

Andrew Schreiber 28-07-2015 15:25

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 1491622)
They were probably saving space by not putting that information up.

... /s?

Koko Ed 28-07-2015 15:35

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber (Post 1491624)
... /s?

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

cbale2000 28-07-2015 16:46

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 1491610)

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.

orangemoore 28-07-2015 17:45

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 (Post 1491633)
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.

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

Koko Ed 28-07-2015 18:28

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Originally Posted by orangemoore (Post 1491644)
The Robot started small and grew in size. Then in recent years have gotten smaller. (2012-> 2013)

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

pmangels17 28-07-2015 21:17

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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.

Michael Hill 28-07-2015 21:28

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed (Post 1491625)
More room for blogs? I dunno.
Thank God for the Technokats.

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.

FlamingSpork 29-07-2015 09:47

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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?

The other Gabe 29-07-2015 20:00

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Originally Posted by orangemoore (Post 1491644)
The Robot started small and grew in size. Then in recent years have gotten smaller. (2012-> 2013)

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

Dale 29-07-2015 20:41

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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.

EricH 29-07-2015 20:47

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Originally Posted by FlamingSpork (Post 1491699)
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?

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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