Capital City Classic 2016 - Registration Open
 

Teams 3859, 1678, and 2073 are excited to announce the fourth annual Capital City Classic!

Capital City Classic is an exciting, fun and welcoming event for FRC Teams to kick off their fall with a bang! This year's event will be held at Cosumnes Oaks High School, home of Team 3859, Wolfpack Robotics. Come enjoy a modified version of Stronghold, participate in workshops presented by veteran 1678 mentors and students, and compete to win fantastic awards!

What: Capital City Classic Offseason Event, hosted by 3859, 1678, and 2073
When: Saturday and Sunday, October 22-23, 2016 (plus optional Friday evening load-in)
Where: Cosumnes Oaks High School, 8350 Lotz Pkwy, Elk Grove, CA 95757
Registration: $250 for first robot, $125 for each additional robot (2nd/3rd or pre-rookie team). Limited scholarships available upon request.
Event features:

• A fun, open, team-friendly environment
• High quality workshops from 1678 (and friends) designed to help take your team to the next level.
• Room for teams to bring practice robots to either compete with or lend to a pre-rookie team! (at a reduced cost!)
• Awesome trophies, including a chance to win the Golden Cheesecake!
• Stronghold rule changes from Chezy Champs!

Registration
Fill out this registration form. Registration deadline and payment due dates to be announced!

Volunteers
We need many volunteers to make Capital City Classic a success! If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this form.

For further information regarding food, hotels, general event info and more, visit the CCC website!

To view some of last year’s workshops, check out 1678’s workshop page.

For questions, email Team 1678: frc1678@gmail.com

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Excited! Applied.

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CCC has always been a great event with a very friendly and hospitable atmosphere. While the Tators missed it last year, we look forward to some friendly competition with our California friends...

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While at our first official planning meeting last night, one of the committee had on a Team Tators shirt (JV Gill). We were all excited to hear you were coming back to CCC!

Glad you guys signed up! You won't be disappointed.

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Today is a happy day! I can't wait to see you guys again! We sometimes even have potato parties where we eat things that are potato and watch the TV/movies.

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A few updates for CCC!

First, here is the current team list. This is shaping up to be our biggest and best CCC yet! If you haven't registered yet, do so at the link at the top of the page.

8 - Paly Robotics
114 - Eagle Strike
199 - Deep Blue Robotics
295 - Granite Bay Robotics Team
701 - RoboVikes
973 - Greybots
1323 - MadTown Robotics
1671 - Buchanan Bird Brains
1678 - Citrus Circuits
2073 - Eagleforce
2122 - Team Tators
2643 - Dark Matter
2854 - The prototypes
3189 - Circuit Breakers
3250 - Kennedy Robotics
3256 - WarriorBorgs
3598 - SEStematic Eliminators
3859 - Wolfpack Robotics
4643 - Thunderbird Robotics
4698 - Rio Raidicons
5274 - Wolverines
5458 - Digital Minds
5924 - The Cat Machine
5940 - B.R.E.A.D.
6174 - Kaprekar's Constants
Pre-Rookie - Valkyrie Robotics

Second, Chezy Champs has posted the rules we'll be running with at CCC on their event page. Check out the link here.

We can't wait to see everyone in October!

-Mike

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Is there any info on the workshops that will be held or a schedule for them yet?

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We are finalizing the schedule for workshops, we hope to publish the entire list and workshop descriptions soon.

As a note, the CCC 2016 Schedule has been posted!

CCC Schedule

Remember to get your payments in, the payment deadline is Sept 23rd!

Payment Link

-Mike

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We are excited to be attending! We will see you in October.

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Registration has closed and we have our official team list. This list is subject to change, so we will likely not have a match schedule until the Friday night of load-in.

8 (2)
295
701 (2)
973
1280
1323 (2)
1458
1662
1671 (3)
1678
2073 (2)
2085
2122 (2)
2643
2854
3189
3250
3256
3598
3859
4255
4643
4698
5274
5458
5496
5499
5677
5852
5924
5940
6039
6174
Valkyrie Robotics (Pre-Rookie)

Also, we will be making a rule modification based around the field and what we observed last week at Chezy Champs. In addition to removing the Drawbridge, Sally Port, and Portculis defenses, we will also be removing the Rough Terrain, leaving 5 available defenses. Because we now have exact number of defenses as their are slots, these defenses will remain in fixed positions throughout the tournament, including eliminations. The positions are as follows:

Position 1: Low Bar
Position 2: Rock Wall
Position 3: Moat
Position 4: Cheval De Frise
Position 5: Ramparts

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Another update for teams!

We will be offering full pizza pre-orders for Capital City Classic at lunch. Pizzas are 14” in diameter, sliced into 12ths, and are $15 each regardless of type. The types available are Pepperoni, Hawaiian, Cheese, Meat, Combo, and Vegi. The pre-order form can be found here. Pre-orders must be submitted by 10/13. Pre-order payments will be done through PayPal (you will not need an account in order to pay, we will bill you directly for the amount of pizza ordered).

Also, here you'll find you'll find a site map for Capital City Classic 2016 at Cosumnes Oaks High School. The pits will be split between the aux gym and the cafeteria, and you can find which pit location your team is assigned to on the map.

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973 will be competing with both our season robot, and the robot we fielded at chezy champs.

Super excited for this event! It was very well run when we attended in 2013.

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Hello,

I was curious if the elimination alliances will be just the normal 3 teams or will it be 4 like at Chezy Champs?

We are super excited to be competing at this great event again.

1 week...

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The plan at this time is for 3 team alliances in eliminations.

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Will FIRST Boulders be used or gopher balls (used at CalGames)?

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Gopher Balls, same as CalGames.

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Bro you sure about that? Well used FIRST boulders are a lot more consistent than the multicolored Gopher balls. I'll find a way to bring a field's worth of boulders myself if it means no Gopher balls.

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Lawrence doesn't mess around...

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Logistics before promises ;) That said, if you figure out a way, I'm sure we can find a use for them.

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973 will bring 6 or more that are in good enough condition for play.

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My experience with these balls is seeing teams with normally pretty good shooters miss most of their shots because the variation in density and compression differed enough from the grey Boulders to make a difference in the shots. Maybe it could work differently for CCC, but I really don't want a scenario where only a few teams who had the chance to tune their shooters to the new balls can shoot accurately and everyone else is left behind because their shooters are tuned to grey Boulders.

But like I said, maybe it'll be a non-issue. I hope that's the case. I really like seeing teams work. :)

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From the feedback I received from Cal Game, which admittedly was very little, and from our tests in our shop, the Gopher ball works a lot like the official ball. We have had to make zero adjustments to our robot(s) for them to perform well for us.

We have a set of 33 brand new, never used, Gopher Balls for the tournament. We will also have a few extra that we will have on the practice field for teams to test with.

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I'll see if Beach Blitz has any normal balls we can contribue. We're bringing back the AV equipment to 254 this weekend. No promises though. Will do my best

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Hey ya'll!

Sorry for the hassle related to the Gopher Balls everyone.

We recognize the situation is not ideal, but there are significant costs associated with using brand new FIRST Boulders over Gopher Balls.

We will have a half practice field at the venue, open Friday evening, with plenty of gopher boulders for teams to calibrate their robots with.

If you want to know, we were hesitant to spend more money than needed this year since we lost nearly $2,000 on CCC last year. Now, we love doing CCC, love the teams, love everything about it, but that was a tough bullet to bite. We've been conservative this year for that exact reason, and hope to make CCC sustainable for years to come, including the many scholarships we give to local teams that wouldn't be able to come to CCC otherwise.

Thank you to everyone offering new/lightly used official FIRST boulders. I think we will continue to to plan on using gopher balls, but if this is a make or break issue for your specific team, please PM ASAP and we can discuss.

Thanks all,

-Mike

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What will the practice field consist of? A tower and wood defenses?

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Hi, All. 2122 (Team Tators) plan on doing some scouting at CCC, we were wondering how people with multiple bots are numbering theirs. We are numbering our second bot as 212, cutting the last number off. Also, to the pre-rookie team, Valkyrie Robotics, your number would be helpful as well. By the way, congrats on joining FIRST. See you all at the competition,

The Tators

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Our 2nd robot will be 9701.

Look forward to competing with y'all.

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Valkyrie is Team 299. http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/299

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Typically we set the first number on a "second" robot to "9".
So, 2073's second robot is 9073.
212 for your second is fine, but the issue is, 212 is a legit team number, thus your team details from TBA will not reflect your team. Since that is the case, we will likely list your second as 9122.

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Hi all. We are going to put our order in tomorrow for pizza pre-orders. If anybody wants to get a last minute order in we can accommodate it as long as you pay promptly (Paypal or credit card accepted).

Link here!

Jack

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Robots are secured, batteries are charged, trailer is loaded, tow vehicle is fueled...Tators are ready for a for a leisurely journey to Elk Grove where the people are friendly and the competition is fierce. See you tomorrow!:)

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Yeeeeeeehawwwwww! Can't wait to see you Tators!

We're all packed and ready to roll! Excited for a fun weekend of workshops, competing, and (for me) volunteering!

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Is there a livestream being planned so us Tators who have to stay back in our fields can watch?

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Livestream should be available here: http://www.wolfpackrobotics.org/capi.../ccc-game-day/.

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TBA will also be carrying the stream.

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I can't find it in either place...

As it is 6am local time here in Elk Grove, we won't have the link up for a little while.

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Right, I just remembered that after my last post...:p

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Live Stream Link: https://youtu.be/iZr5bpCvPwc

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Tune into the live stream! Quarterfinals are happening now! Elimination alliances are posted to the CCC Blue Alliance page: http://www.thebluealliance.com/event/2016cacc#results

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Team 701 and 9701 would like to thank 1678, 2073 and 3859 for putting on this amazing competition. Everyone had a balst.

701 would like to thank 1671 and 9973 for allowing us to play with y'all. Both teams really examplify the values of first.

9701 would like to thank 9008 and 2073 for allowing our drivers to get the experience of eliminations as well as being great alliance partners.

Congratulations to 2122, 212 and 6174 for taking home the win.

We'd also like to congratulate 3250 for being finalists. It's been fun watching y'all get better and better throughout the 4 events we've played with y'all. I'm expecting that y'all will be even better next year.

Given this is our last competition until next year, we wish all teams luck at any other events they may be going to this year. We look forward to competing with all the teams in the near future for steamworks.

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Thanks for hosting a great event 1678, 2073, and 3859! I hope to see more in the future. ;) #districts2018

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Wow. What an awesome weekend!

I had such a great time volunteering as an FTA/FTAA and helping out all the teams. To my other FTAs Harsh, Miguel, and Bill - working with you all was very fun and I hope we get to do another event in the future.

Special shoutout to Harsh for winning the Volunteer of the Year award - you worked so hard to put this event on and deserved every bit of it.

As always, thanks to the teams that hosted, the planning committee, and everyone else who helped make the event a success.

Another thanks to Austin Schuh and Andrew Nabors. Without them, we would have had a difficult time running the event. Andrew worked countless hours on Cheesy Arena whenever we were stuck, getting internet access to work, fixing issues we had with the network gear, getting TBA posting to work, and just generally stepping up whenever we had issues. Austin, true to his role on his volunteer badge, was our resident "Robot Whisperer", working to fix and recompile Cheesy Arena, solving connection issues with other team's robots and more - even though he just came to spectate and present his workshops.

All the teams I interacted with were fantastic. Especially 973, as they were very patient and helpful as we tried to get Apophis running on Saturday and Sunday. I was so happy when we ran that test match on Sunday morning and everything worked!

Congratulations to all the teams that made elims as well.

- Nick

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CCC was a lot of fun.

First, thank you to all the volunteers and all the teams that showed up! A special thank you to those from the host teams that put a LOT of work into organizing everything, including (but DEFINITELY not limited to) Clayton Ou (the volunteer coordinator), Bill Kendall from 2073, Jack Covert from 3859, and Mike Corsetto from 1678.

I really want to thank 2122 for being willing to call their timeout for us in the finals when 6039's radio (or the FMS, we still aren't sure) had problems. That kind of GP is what makes these events great. Also, that was a well earned win. My sincere congratulations to that entire alliance.

I got to coach the drive-team for 1678 at this event, in preparation for my role as strategist this coming season. As a result I had the opportunity to work closely with 3250, Kennedy Robotics, and 6039, Pi Robotics, through eliminations. I want to thank Rob from 3250 for being an amazing mentor to me; as a much more experienced drive-coach he taught me a lot, and was always there to help me think through match strategy, while encouraging me to call the shots for the alliance. 6039's drive-coach was really easy to communicate with, and also excellent to work with. Also, thank you to 299 for being eager to hop on the field when we needed a sub. It was a pleasure to work with all three teams.

Thanks everyone,
Bryton Moeller

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Semi-related sidenote about the issue with 6039: I'm pretty sure it was a combination of problems with the RoboRio and the radio, but not the FMS. We couldn't pull up the web dashboard when tethered through USB or Ethernet on the RoboRio and we also couldn't pull up the access point configuration page when connected to the AP. Then, we swapped radios, and the robot still would not connect. However, 299 connected almost immediately once coming on the field. That being said, if you (or people on your team) have theories why/how the FMS wasn't functioning properly please PM me, I'm interested in what you think acted up.

-Nick

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CCC was a tremendous event! Thank you to the organizers, volunteers, and teams who were such great event hosts.

We brought a large crew of rookies to the event and it was really neat for them to be able to go event sessions as well as compete with the off season robot. They came away from CCC very excited about FRC - for which we owe you all a big thank you.

As FRC grows in the mountain west, I hope that we can pull together an event for the northern teams that meets the CCC standard for enabling team growth.

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When can we expect to see the workshop recordings online?

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Yes, but we've been busy prepping for several other events the last couple of weeks. We'll have more time after MTTD.

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bump.

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When are you guys going to put up the rest of the workshops on YouTube?
I am really excited to watch the Test Driven Development workshop from Austin Schuh but it isn't up yet.

Thanks for the great resources.

Workshops are up on the Citrus Circuits YouTube channel and web site here: http://www.citruscircuits.org/fall-workshops.html

Thanks guys for uploading everything!