1.) OOOOOOOO!!! boxes.........
2.)OOOOOOOO!!!! a ramp........
3.)OOOOOOOO!!!! Human players on the field.........
4.)OOOOOOOO!!!! Non-controlled movement for 15 seconds.....
5.)OOOOWWWW!!!! My head hurts!!!!:confused:

top 5 "stuff"
 

1) What's goona happen to our rookie team if FIRST's robots don't even work :(
2) How can our team representitive that talked on the stage forget out team Sponsor (TI Automotives) and our team number (1189) :confused:
3) This 15 seconds could be our doom
4) Oh no, we're missing peices to our kit
4 1/2) What's the equation and whats it for again?
5) Why didn't I get a bubble pen? :mad:

1) Ha! People worried about that thread for nothing...
2) Maybe we can use the boxes as storage in shop later...
3) Uh oh...the automation is gonna kill us
4) Why am I the only student here doing anything for my team...stupid projector not liking me
5) Math makes me happy...

1 - *jaw drop*
2 - Autonomous!?!? 15 seconds!??! AH!
3 - Stop laughing at me! It's not my fault I'm in programming!
4 - I wonder what's been posted on Chief Delphi
5 - *checks boards* ... AH!

- Katie

1) Boxes?!?
2) Why am I a programmer?
3) Thank god my replacement doesn't need much training...
4) King of the hill on teflon? Oh no...
5) This is gonna be fun...

top 5
 

1) HOLY CRAP
2) Tupperware?
3) STACKING!?!?!?!
4) GRATING THAT :ahh: BIG
5)............................. <-----Speechless

(in order of appearance)

1. STACK ATTACK! How creative.

2. Oooh. Automation. Awe-toe-may-shin. Hee.

3. Large plastic objects... I forsee violence.

4. People simulating robots... teehee.

5. (after it all sinks in) Holy carp. And I distinctly meant carp. Like the fish. :D

1. stared in complete astonishment
2. frantically contacted driving partner
3. waited for manual to be uploaded
4. read rule 9.1 S10... laughed

and coming in at #5.
.. re-read the manual.... re-read rule 9.1 S10.... ideas started overflowing my mind :)

1) Autonomous period, oh great and I'm on the programming team
2) Wow, I can sense violence in this
3) A big wall in the middle on a ramp?
4) What if none of the robots can get their autonomous period to work, isn't that embarassing
5) ZZZ...even FIRST's robots didn't work, oh great...ZZZ

Y=mx+b CORRECT

At the kickoff they siad the hint concerned the scoring, not the semi-circle on the floor! This means that

SCORE=BOXES*HIGHT+KING OF HILL PTS.

OR...

S=BH+K

OR...

Y=mx+b

Remember the variables can be any letter.

6)Does anyone see parts of boxes? We dented one just by dropping it. Remember destructions of the field results in a DQ.

By the way I hate parabolas.

My Hi Five
 

My Hi Five:

1. Ramping speed! is this a Demolition Derby?
2. How far can a robot throw a bin if a robot can throw a bin?
3. The only missile is the bins? well, load me up!
4. Wow, cool go-cart racing.
5. Note to self: recruit smart programmers.

:D

1. Wow!
2. Buy Mountain Dew
3. Use bins for recycling
4. Buy more Mountain Dew
5. Sit back, relax, this is "gonna be some show!"

Ken Loyd
Team 64

In order of appearance...
 

1. It's 11 AM. I'm at work, selling pipe and missing the kickoff. I'm gonna go get some coffee.

2. Well, it's close to midnight. May as well check out what I'll be doing for the next six weeks.

3. Autonomous mode. Bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Completely not awesome.

4. Now why'd they go and put that polycarbonate up there? It's surface will get destroyed durning practice, totally ruining the plan. They so should have gone with Teflon.

5. Well, when push comes to shove, you can always succeed using a robot as a battering ram. Wonder if I can make it catch air over the ramp? *Evil laugh*

Hey, look! New smiles!
ani-gasp :ahh:
Lego head :]
ani-zoinks :yikes:

1. What is that on that ramp?
2. What the...?
3. Oh boxes...yay! No balls this year!
4. Autonomous...control? *remembers he's the programmer*
5. *cries*
5 1/2. Repeat steps 4 and 5

I seriously almost passed out when he said "autonomous control"...it was all in slow motion and such. It was crazy...

*jeremy

y=ax^2+bx+c
 

Simple version:

score = -Bs^2 + Bt*Bs + 25*Robots

score=y
Bs=boxes in stacks = x
-1 = a
Bt = boxes total in Scoring zone = B
Robots = # of robots on the ramp
25*Robots = c

That's the only thing I can think of as far as scoring, but it doesn't take into account a bin oriented differently. It's just a bins stacked upright and all nested.