Gahhh.. I know what you mean. The announcer's voice was difficult to listen to.

It was difficult to really see much of anything through the webcast. I'm sure it will be more exciting in person, but today it wasn't that exciting at times.

hehe - that was us. We dragged our light around during the second half of the second practice match. I was very impressed that more damage wasn't done. We were attacked by a stack, instead of the other way around, and a bin destroyed the piece of lucite our light was on.

The practice rounds were very exciting. Every so often you would hear a huge crash and come running from the pits to see a bot on its back. It happened far more often than I thought. Also, I was surprised to see how many bots couldn't get up the ramp at all.

The biggest observation is that stacking is absolutely useless, as is the ability to move stacks. Stack attack and defense of the human player stacks seemed to be the best strategy. And KOH definitely wins the match.

I agree about the annoying announcer. And they need to TURN THE MUSIC DOWN! When you can't even hear your co-driver who's yelling at the top of his lungs right into your ear, and its only a practice day, something is wrong. I'm wearing hearing protection all day tommorrow because it was getting to a point that it was seriously damaging your hearing.

Other than one lapse in gracious professionalism which I go into in another post, it was a fun day, and I'm looking forward to tommorrow!

it turned out stackers weren't effective at all- not enough time to do anything

I could barely hear the music. It might be because of how the speakers are now with them close to the drive stations.

in the pits it was fine, and in the stands it was maybe a little loud but ok, but it was so loud on and around the field that verbal communication was impossible. I also think they slowly cranked the volume up as the day went on.

VCU has live team rankings here...


http://robots.larc.nasa.gov/vcu_2003/va_rank.html

http://robots.larc.nasa.gov/vcu_2003/va_rank.html

VCU rankings, so far its been updated every 10 minutes or so.
The webcast is doing well so far.


Wetzel

After a few rounds can someone tell me how....
well auto. mode is doin?
Like are a lot of teams being able to knock over the bins in auto mode?
Also does it seem to be that the first 10 seconds of the match predicts the team who wins?
How are stackers doing?
Thanks
Good Luck to all the teams at VCU!

i'm dying here guys. i'm stuck home this weekend. PLEASE post updates!!!!!